Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals
2.—(1) It is an offence for any person to place on the market or to export (or offer to export) to third countries in accordance with Section B of Chapter A of Annex VIII bovine animals born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996.
(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the placing on the market of such animals within the United Kingdom.
(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a bovine animal is deemed to have been born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 unless records held by the Department or any cattle passport in relation to that animal show either that—
(a)it was born in the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996; or
(b)it first entered the United Kingdom on or after 1st August 1996.