The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2008

Movement document

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.