الوسم بالكي: the law by country

Marking horses by branding is excepted from the anaesthesia rule when done by a qualified person. Text read on a legal publisher's copy of Act 246/1992 Sb. (last amended 1 April 2025), not the official collection.

Listed as an identification method for horses; no specific condition in Sch. 7.

Not listed among the identification methods for cattle, which include freeze branding.

The 2010 Regulations do not re-enact the 2007 hot-branding provision for equines, and no authorisations exist.

Listed identification method; no specific condition in Sch. 7.

The agency states that iron branding is banned for identifying horses, in favour of microchips. Agency page dated 5 May 2020.

Marking warm-blooded animals by burning is named as cruelty, unless a procedure allowed by law.

National Farm Animal Care Council Code of Practice: an industry code, not a statute. NFACC says Code requirements are not explicitly binding in most provinces but can be evidence of distress. Referred to in provincial law: adopted in NL (NLR 36/12; NLR 35/12 s.15 makes a practice a code prohibits a prohibited one), prescribed in SK (Reg 1 s.3-4), named as a defence in NB (Reg 2000-4 s.4(2), Sch A) and BC (B.C. Reg. 34/2019, as generally accepted practice), accepted in NS (Act s.28(b)). Beef: only when required for export, by policy or as proof of ownership, by trained personnel; not on wet cattle. Dairy cattle must not be branded.

Nobody may hot brand an animal. The temporary exception for horses, ponies and donkeys (r 55M) was revoked on 2026-05-09, so no exception remains. Fine up to NZ$5,000 (body corporate NZ$25,000).