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SCHEDULE 8SRestrictions on placing on the market and export

Placing on the market or export to [F1countries outside the European Union] of bovine animalsS

2.—(1) It is an offence for any person to place on the market or to export (or offer to export) to [F2countries outside the European Union] bovine animals born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996.

(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the placing on the market of such animals for sale or supply to any person in the United Kingdom.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a bovine animal is deemed to have been born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 unless its cattle passport shows either that—

(a)it was born in the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996; or

(b)it first entered the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996.