(a) Article 7.1, first indent (keeping of a register);

(b) Article 7.3 (provision of information);

(c) Article 7.4 (production and retention of the register).

    (2) The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall be the competent authority for the purposes of Article 7 of the Council Regulation.

    (3) For the purposes of Article 7.4 of the Council Regulation, the register shall be substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, shall contain the information specified in Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2629/97 and shall be completed at the following times - 

(a) in the case of the movement of an animal on or off a holding, within 36 hours of the movement;

(b) in the case of the birth of an animal in a dairy herd, within 7 days of the birth;

(c) in the case of the birth of an animal otherwise than in a dairy herd, within 30 days of the birth;

(d) in the case of the death of an animal, within 7 days of the death;

(e) in the case of a replacement eartag where the animal was tagged under the cattle tagging Orders, within 36 hours of the replacement.

    (4) In the case of an animal aged under 12 weeks being moved through a market, the market operator shall also keep a register of - 

(a) the name and address of the seller;

(b) the name and address of the buyer;

(c) the eartag number of the animal;

(d) the date of the sale; and

(e) where the animal has been brought to a market within the previous 28 days, the address of that market and the date on which the calf was brought there,