Capture once. Move with a permit. Certify and verify.
The registry is the source of truth. Farm apps, abattoirs, auctions and veterinary offices connect to it as clients across one hard trust boundary — two planes, one authoritative record.
The four steps
1. Register identity
Every animal gets one national ID for life — captured by a keeper directly, a field officer, or an accredited vendor app. One physical tag, one ID, no duplicates.
2. Record movements and health
Movement permits are lodged and checked against veterinary zones; vaccinations and disease events are recorded against the animal's lifetime record.
3. Request and issue certificates
Keepers and vendors request; the competent authority inspects, attests and signs the official certificate (the Part I / Part II model). Vendors never mint sovereign documents.
4. Verify anywhere
Anyone — a buyer, abattoir or border inspector — scans the QR and sees the authoritative status, with no login and no dependence on any vendor.
Two planes, one trust boundary
LITS separates the registry control plane — the authoritative record and the acts only the State may perform — from the client plane, where vendors and keepers submit and request. The boundary is hard and deliberate: it is what lets the system be adopted as shared national infrastructure.
- Clients submit and request. Farm apps, abattoirs and auctions register animals, lodge movements and request certificates through the open API.
- The authority attests and signs. Issuing and signing an official certificate, confirming a retag, and merging records are control-plane acts reserved to the competent authority.
- The registry stays the record. No client holds the authoritative copy. If a vendor disappears, the herd's identity and history remain in the registry.
One authoritative ID — even when a tag changes
An animal has a single national ID for life. A physical tag can be lost or replaced, but the identity is never reissued — so stock cannot be laundered by retagging.
- One ID for life
- A national ID is allocated once and never reissued, even after a merge or a tag change.
- Find-or-create on tag
- Two vendors tagging the same beast converge on the same national ID instead of minting two competing identities.
- Retag is an authority event
- A replacement tag is recorded against the existing ID and confirmed by the authority — the old tag is retired, the identity continues.
- Portable between vendors
- A keeper who switches vendors links to the same record; their animals and certificates move with them.