Amendment of the Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19994.

(1)

The Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19997 shall be amended as provided in this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 2(1) for the definition of “the Council Regulation” there shall be substituted the following definition –

  • “the Council Regulation means Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 820/97;”.

(3)

In regulation 5 for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(1)

Any person who fails to comply with the requirement to notify the birth, movement or death of any animal in accordance with the second indent of Article 7.1 of the Council Regulation either in the manner provided for in, or within the time limits specified by, these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence.”.

(4)

In regulation 12 for the words “second paragraph of Article 21” there shall be substituted the words “second indent of Article 22.1”.

(5)

After regulation 14(2) there shall be added the following paragraph –

“(3)

For the purposes of Article 18(6) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 any offence against these Regulations shall be deemed to be an offence against that Order.”.