Any keeper of animals may apply for a cattle passport for any animal which he intends to consign out of Northern Ireland to another part of the European Community.

An application for a cattle passport under paragraph (1) shall be made in writing to the Department and shall be in such form as the Department may require.

Any person who moves an animal from a holding for consignment out of Northern Ireland to another part of the European Community, before the keeper of that animal applies for a cattle passport for that animal, shall be guilty of an offence.