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9.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)—
(a)the second compliance deadline for the purposes of article 7 is the date falling 13 calendar months after the first compliance deadline; and
(b)compliance deadlines subsequently occur on the date falling 13 calendar months after the immediately preceding compliance deadline.
(2) Where in any case article 7(2) is complied with before a compliance deadline, the date of compliance is substituted as the starting point for the determination of the next compliance deadline in relation to the breeding herd or breeding bovine animal concerned.
(3) Where a herd or animal is kept in Scotland as a breeding herd or breeding bovine animal for less than 30 days in the period between two compliance deadlines—
(a)the keeper does not have to comply with article 7(2) in relation to the later of those compliance deadlines; and
(b)the herd or animal is treated, as at the later of those compliance deadlines, as not previously having been kept in Scotland.