Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 871

      The Cattle Identification Regulations 1998


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


1998 No. 871

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Cattle Identification Regulations 1998

  Made 19th March 1998 
  Laid before Parliament 20th March 1998 
  Coming into force 15th April 1998 


ARRANGEMENT OF PROVISIONS


PART I

INTRODUCTION
1. Title and commencement
2. Interpretation and extent

PART II

EARTAGS
3. Enforcement of Article 4 of the Council Regulation (eartags)
4. Form of eartags
5. Movement from a holding
6. Replacement eartags
7. Eartags missing at a slaughterhouse
8. Intra-Community trade
9. Imports from third countries
10. Alteration and storage of eartags
11. Transitional provisions relating to eartags

PART III

CATTLE PASSPORTS
12. Application and interpretation
13. Application for a cattle passport
14. Movement of animals
15. Movement of calves under 28 days without a cattle passport
16. Imported cattle and cattle from Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands
17. Cattle from another member State
18. Completion of cattle passports when cattle are moved
19. Markets
20. Slaughterhouses and private kills
21. Retention of cattle passports
22. Lost cattle passports
23. Change of eartag number
24. Fees
25. Movement of cattle outside Great Britain
26. Animal deaths or lost or stolen animals
27. Return of the cattle passport from slaughterhouses etc.
28. Alterations

PART IV

RECORDS
29. Records

PART V

GENERAL
30. Powers of inspectors
31. Powers to restrict movements
32. Obstruction
33. Offences by bodies corporate
34. Penalties
35. Enforcement
36. Revocations and savings

  Schedule 1 Logo for eartags

  Schedule 2 Form of record of cattle movements

  Schedule 3 Revocations
 

Explanatory Note

 


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