SCHEDULETRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

Operators of approved laboratories

7.—(1) This paragraph applies where—

(a)before the coming into force day a sample or samples have in accordance with article 7(2)(b) or 15(2)(b) of the 2012 Order, been submitted for testing under the 2012 Order to an approved laboratory for the purposes of that Order; and

(b)as at the coming into force day the operator of the laboratory has not fulfilled the duties imposed by article 13 or 16 of the 2012 Order in relation to the sample or samples.

(2) Where this paragraph applies, the operator of the approved laboratory must comply with—

(a)article 17 of this Order, in relation to a sample or samples taken from a breeding herd or a breeding bovine animal; and

(b)article 18 of this Order, in relation to a sample taken from a qualifying calf,

as if the sample or samples had been submitted under Part 2 of this Order.