23.—(1) Every keeper, other than a transporter, must comply with Article 5(1), (3) and (5) of the Council Regulation.
(2) When an animal is moved onto or from its holding, the keeper must record—
(a) the information required by Section B of the Annex to the Council Regulation; and
(b) the number of animals moved.
(3) The information referred to in paragraph (2) in respect of animals moving onto a holding must be recorded by the keeper by entering it in section 3 of the register.
(4) The information referred to in paragraph (2) in respect of animals moving from a holding must be recorded by the keeper by entering it in section 3 of the register.
(5) Where an animal is consigned for export the keeper at the holding of origin must, in addition to the information referred to in paragraph (2), record the unique number of that animal when recording its movement on to and off the holding of origin, by the methods set out in paragraphs (3) and (4) respectively.
(6) For the purposes of Article 5(3) of the Council Regulation, the register must be in the form set out in Schedule 1.
(7) The keeper must complete the register—
(a) in the case of the movement of an animal on to or from a holding or from one location on a holding to another, within 36 hours of the movement;
(b) in the case of the replacement of an identification mark, within 36 hours of the replacement.
(8) Where a keeper moves his or her animals to another holding but continues to be the keeper, the keeper does not have to keep the register on that holding but must be able to produce it within a reasonable amount of time to the Welsh Ministers upon request.
(9) For the purposes of Article 5(3) of the Council Regulation, the period for which the register must be available is 3 years from when the last entry was made.
24.—(1) A keeper must comply with Article 6(1) of the Council Regulation and complete the movement document in accordance with this article.
(2) A keeper must comply with Article 6(3) of the Council Regulation and for the purposes of that Article the minimum period for which the keeper at the holding of destination must keep the movement document is 3 years from the date of the movement of an animal on to his or her holding.
(3) The movement document must—
(a) be in the form set out in Schedule 2;
(b) be completed in full by the appropriate keeper as specified in that form; and
(c) in addition to containing the information required by Section C of the Annex to the Council Regulation, be completed by the keeper with the information in Schedule 2, including the number of animals moved; and
(d) be kept in chronological order with any other movement documents retained by the keeper at the holding of destination.
(4) A market operator may complete an electronically generated movement document in a form other than that set out in Schedule 2, provided that it—
(a) contains the information in Section C of the Annex to the Council Regulation and paragraph 3(c) of this article;
(b) contains a reference to this Order at the head of the document; and
(c) is printed and signed by the market operator.
25.—(1) In the case of an animal moved to another holding—
(a) upon the animal’s arrival at that other holding, the transporter must give the movement document to the keeper at that holding; and
(b) the keeper at that holding must send a copy of the movement document to the local authority within 3 days of the animal arriving at the holding.
(2) In the case of an animal moved from a holding to a port for consignment outside Great Britain, the keeper at that holding must send a copy of the movement document to the local authority within 3 days of the animal leaving the holding.
26.—(1) For the purpose of Article 7(2) of the Council Regulation, a keeper who keeps animals permanently must make an inventory of the number of animals on his or her holding as at the 1 January each year.
(2) A keeper must provide the result of the annual inventory to the Welsh Ministers by 1 February each year.
27.—(1) On receiving notification under Article 8(2) of the Council Regulation that a person has become the keeper on a holding, the Welsh Ministers must, subject to paragraph (2), allocate a flockmark in respect of each flock of sheep on the holding and a herdmark in respect of each herd of goats on the holding.
(2) When the holding is a slaughterhouse or a market, the Welsh Ministers must allocate a flockmark or herdmark only where they deem it appropriate to do so.
(3) The keeper must notify the Welsh Ministers in writing of any change in the information specified in Article 8(2)(a) of the Council Regulation within thirty days of such change.
28.—(1) A market operator must ensure that all animals are divided into lots of one or more animals immediately upon their arrival at the market and that a lot number is allocated to each lot.
(2) No person may buy an animal at a market unless he or she buys all the other animals in the lot to which that animal belongs and moves the entire lot from the market to the same holding.
(3) No person may sell an animal at a market unless he or she also sells all the other animals in the lot to the same buyer.
(4) A market operator may not receive an animal onto a market unless —
(a) it is identified in accordance with Part 2; and
(b) it is accompanied by a movement document which is completed in accordance with Part 6.
29. No person may receive an animal from another member State unless it is identified in accordance with—
(a) the Council Regulation, in the case of an animal born after 9 July 2005; or
(b) Council Directive 92/102/EEC, in the case of an animal born on or before 9 July 2005.
30. No person may receive an animal from England, Scotland or Northern Ireland unless it is identified, tagged and accompanied by a movement document in accordance with—
(a) in the case of an animal born after 9 July 2005, the Council Regulation, including any derogation exercised under the Council Regulation; or
(b) in the case of an animal born on or before 9 July 2005 any of the previous Orders and any additional requirements imposed in legislation enforcing the Council Regulation in relation to such an animal.