The Cattle Identification Regulations 1998

Records

29.—(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the following provisions of the Council Regulation and, in the case of a register, fails to complete and keep that register in accordance with this regulation, shall be guilty of an offence—

(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,

and shall keep such record for three years.

(5) For the purposes of Article 7.4 of the Council Regulation, the register under paragraph (3) above shall 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, the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990 or the Movement of Animals (Records) Order 1960(1) shall be kept for the same period.

(6) In the case of an animal which is not eartagged, but is marked under the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990, the reference to an eartag in the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations is to the mark applied under that Order.

(1)

S.I. 1960/105 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.