Cap panas: the law by country
Where it is banned, allowed only under conditions or permitted. Each rule names its law and links to the source.
- Dilarang: 5 places
- Terhad: 2 places
- Dibenarkan: 2 places
Belgium
Brussels Capital
Agensi menyatakan bahawa branding besi dilarang untuk mengenal pasti kuda, sebagai ganti mikrocip. Laman agensi bertarikh 5 Mei 2020.
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The agency states that iron branding is banned for identifying horses, in favour of microchips. Agency page dated 5 May 2020.
Law of 14 August 1986, as stated by Bruxelles EnvironnementChecked 4 Nov 2026
Czechia
Whole country
Penandaan kuda dengan branding dikecualikan daripada peraturan anestesia apabila dilakukan oleh orang yang berkelayakan. Teks dibaca pada salinan Act 246/1992 Sb. milik penerbit undang-undang (dipinda kali terakhir 1 April 2025), bukan koleksi rasmi.
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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.
Act 246/1992 Sb., s.7(3)(h)Checked 4 Nov 2026
Kanada
Whole country
National Farm Animal Care Council Code of Practice: kod industri, bukan statut. NFACC menyatakan keperluan Code tidak mengikat secara jelas di kebanyakan wilayah tetapi boleh menjadi keterangan tentang kesusahan. Dirujuk dalam undang-undang wilayah: diterima pakai di NL (NLR 36/12; NLR 35/12 s.15 menjadikan amalan yang dilarang oleh sesuatu kod sebagai amalan terlarang), ditetapkan di SK (Reg 1 s.3-4), disebut sebagai pembelaan di NB (Reg 2000-4 s.4(2), Sch A) dan BC (B.C. Reg. 34/2019, sebagai amalan yang diterima umum), diterima di NS (Act s.28(b)). Daging lembu: hanya apabila diwajibkan untuk eksport, melalui dasar atau sebagai bukti pemilikan, oleh kakitangan terlatih; tidak pada lembu yang basah. Lembu tenusu tidak boleh di-brand.
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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.
NFACC Code of Practice: Beef Cattle (2013), s.4.3; Dairy Cattle (2023), s.4.2.1 (industry codes, not statutes)Checked 4 Nov 2026
New Zealand
Whole country
Tiada sesiapa boleh melakukan hot branding pada haiwan. Pengecualian sementara bagi kuda, kuda padi dan keldai (r 55M) telah dibatalkan pada 2026-05-09, jadi tiada pengecualian yang tinggal. Denda sehingga NZ$5,000 (badan korporat NZ$25,000).
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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).
Animal Welfare (Care and Procedures) Regulations 2018, rr 55L, 55MIn force since 9 Mei 2021Checked 4 Nov 2026
Poland
Whole country
Menanda haiwan berdarah panas dengan pembakaran disebut sebagai kekejaman, kecuali prosedur yang dibenarkan oleh undang-undang.
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Marking warm-blooded animals by burning is named as cruelty, unless a procedure allowed by law.
Ustawa o ochronie zwierząt (21 August 1997), art. 6(2)(1), as amended by Dz.U. 2011 poz. 1373Checked 4 Nov 2026
United Kingdom
England
Disenaraikan sebagai kaedah pengenalpastian bagi kuda; tiada syarat khusus dalam Sch. 7.
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Listed as an identification method for horses; no specific condition in Sch. 7.
SI 2007/1100, Sch. 1In force since 6 Apr 2007Checked 4 Nov 2026
Tidak disenaraikan antara kaedah pengenalpastian lembu, yang termasuk freeze branding.
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Not listed among the identification methods for cattle, which include freeze branding.
Animal Welfare Act 2006, s.5; SI 2007/1100, Sch. 1In force since 6 Apr 2007Checked 4 Nov 2026
Scotland
Regulations 2010 tidak menguatkuasakan semula peruntukan hot branding 2007 bagi equid, dan tiada kebenaran wujud.
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The 2010 Regulations do not re-enact the 2007 hot-branding provision for equines, and no authorisations exist.
Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006, s.20; Prohibited Procedures on Protected Animals (Exemptions) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/387)In force since 5 Nov 2010Checked 4 Nov 2026
Wales
Kaedah pengenalpastian yang disenaraikan; tiada syarat khusus dalam Sch. 7.
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Listed identification method; no specific condition in Sch. 7.
WSI 2007/1029, Sch. 1In force since 28 Mac 2007Checked 4 Nov 2026
What each status means
- Dilarang
- Prohibited outright.
- Terhad
- Allowed with conditions other than a vet: an age limit, a method, a licence.
- Dibenarkan
- Allowed.
The law on other procedures
- Pemotongan telinga
- Pemotongan ekor
- Pemotongan ekor (ternakan)
- Pembuangan kuku kelima
- Pembuangan putik tanduk
- Pembuangan tanduk
- Pembuangan kuku (onikektomi)
- Devokalisasi (pemotongan pita suara)
- Pemotongan paruh
- Pemotongan hujung sayap
- Pemotongan gigi
- Mulesing (pemotongan kulit punggung)
- Pemotongan balung
- Pembuangan taji
- Pemasangan cincin hidung
- Cap beku
- Pemotongan otot ekor (tail setting)