SCHEDULE 3 continued PART 2
9.—(1) When cattle are moved off a holding, the keeper must ensure that the cattle passport is marked with the date of movement and must sign it in the appropriate place.
(2) He must give the cattle passport duly completed to the transporter before the cattle are moved off the holding.
(3) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
10.—(1) Anyone transporting cattle must ensure that each animal is accompanied throughout its journey by a valid cattle passport.
(2) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
(3) But, if the transporter is not the owner of the animals, it is a defence for him to prove that he had no reason to believe that an animal was not accompanied by a valid cattle passport.
11.—(1) When cattle are moved on to a holding, the transporter must give each animal’s cattle passport to the new keeper (or, if moved through a market, he must give it to the market operator, who must then give it to the new keeper).
(2) The new keeper or market operator must ensure that the cattle passport is marked with—
(a) the date of movement on to the holding,
(b) the name and address of the keeper (or, in the case of a market, the operator of the market) and the holding number, using if practicable the bar code label provided by the Secretary of State,
and must sign it.
(3) He must do this within 36 hours of the arrival of the animal.
(4) No one may move the animal off the holding until the passport has been completed in accordance with this paragraph.
(5) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
12.—(1) In the case of cattle brought into England from outside Great Britain, the animal may be moved from the place it was brought into England to the holding at which it must be registered in accordance with paragraph 4 or 5 of Schedule 2 using its passport (if it has one) or its movement document.
(2) If it has a passport its keeper must complete it in accordance with this Schedule, and failure to do so is an offence.
13.—(1) Where cattle are exported to third countries the keeper must send the cattle passports to the Secretary of State within seven days, and failure to do so is an offence.
(2) When cattle are transported outside Great Britain to a destination within the European Union the transporter must ensure that each animal is accompanied by its passport, and failure to do so is an offence.
14.—(1) The operator of a market or other animal gathering commits an offence if any cattle are accepted without a valid cattle passport (or, in the case of imported cattle, documentation permitting them to be moved).
(2) In this and the following paragraph “animal gathering” means an occasion at which animals are brought together for one or more of the following purposes—
(a) a sale, show or exhibition;
(b) onward consignment; or
(c) inspection to confirm the animals possess specific breed characteristics.
15. An officer of the Secretary of State (or, in the case of an animal at a market, animal gathering or slaughterhouse, an inspector) may at any time issue a licence for cattle to be moved without a cattle passport if he is satisfied that it is necessary to do so and that it is not practicable to obtain one.
Regulation 7
1.—(1) A keeper must notify the Secretary of State within three days of any movement of cattle on to or off a holding—
(a) using the Secretary of State’s interactive website;
(b) using software approved by the Secretary of State; or
(c) in writing, using the movement card provided by the Secretary of State,
and must provide all the required information.
(2) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
2.—(1) When an animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must notify the death by completing the death details in the passport and giving it to the official veterinarian or his representative at the time of slaughter.
(2) If an animal is slaughtered outside a slaughterhouse but sent to a slaughterhouse for dressing, the keeper must complete the death details in the passport and send it with the animal to the slaughterhouse, and the occupier of the slaughterhouse must notify the death by giving the passport to the official veterinarian or his representative when the animal arrives at the slaughterhouse.
(3) In any other case, when an animal dies or is killed the keeper must notify the death by completing the death details in the passport and sending it to the Secretary of State within seven days.
(4) If an animal does not have a cattle passport, the keeper must notify its death to the Secretary of State in writing within seven days, and include the ear tag number, the date of death and the holding on which it died.
(5) In this paragraph “official veterinarian” means the person appointed as such by the Food Standards Agency.
(6) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
Regulation 8
1.—(1) In accordance with Article 7(1), first indent and Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 (keeping an up-to-date register) any person who fails to complete a register in accordance with this paragraph, is guilty of an offence.
(2) He must complete it 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 ear tag where the ear tag number is changed, within 36 hours of the replacement.
(3) The register must contain the information in Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 911/2004 and, in addition, the ear tag of the dam (in the case of embryo transfer, the surrogate dam and, if known, genetic dam)(28) (in the case of an animal born before 1st April 1995 that does not have an ear tag, the identification mark must be recorded instead of the ear tag number).
2. Any person who fails to comply with Article 7(3) (provision of information) is guilt of an offence.
3.—(1) For the purposes of Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000, the register must be kept for 10 years in the case of a farm and 3 years in any other case, in both cases from the end of the calendar year in which the last entry was made; and any record made under the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995 must be kept for the same period.
(2) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
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