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10.—(1) The keeper of an animal imported from a third country must comply with Article 4(4) of the Council Regulation and this article.
(2) The period for identifying such an animal for the purposes of Article 4(4) of the Council Regulation is 14 days.
(3) The means of identification for animals imported from a third country must be the same as that set out in Article 4(2)(a) and (b) and Article 9(3) of the Council Regulation and the identification code for the purposes of Section A.2 of the Annex is—
(a)the letters “UK”; and
(b)a 12 digit number in accordance with a numbering scheme approved by the Scottish Ministers.
(4) Where an animal is imported from a third country and re-identified according to this article, the keeper must record information about the addition of the new means of identification in the register together with the full identification code on the new means of identification and the full code on the method of identification applied in the third country.