The Beef Special Premium Regulations 2001

Duplicate or replacement national administrative documents

9.—(1) Where a bovine animal which has been lost or stolen is subsequently restored to the person who surrendered the national administrative document in respect of it pursuant to regulation 7, that person may apply to the appropriate authority for a duplicate of that national administrative document.

(2) Where a national administrative document issued in respect of a bovine animal has been lost, stolen or destroyed, the person then holding that bovine animal may apply to the appropriate authority for a duplicate of that national administrative document.

(3) Where, in the event of the replacement of an eartag on a bovine animal in respect of which a national administrative document has been issued, the eartag number identifying that bovine animal is replaced with a different eartag number, the person holding that bovine animal may apply to the appropriate authority for a replacement national administrative document in respect of that bovine animal.

(4) Following the receipt of an application made under this regulation, together with, in the case of an application made pursuant to—

(a) paragraph (1), such details relating to the bovine animal concerned and such proof as the appropriate authority may reasonably require regarding that bovine animal’s loss or theft and subsequent restoration;

(b) paragraph (2), such proof as that authority may reasonably require of the loss, theft or destruction of the national administrative document concerned; or

(c) paragraph (3), such proof as that authority may reasonably require of the replacement of the eartag number in question,

that authority shall, save where any requirement specified in regulation 5(5) is being contravened in relation to that bovine animal, issue to the person making that application a duplicate or replacement national administrative document as the case may be.