6.—(1) The occupier of a slaughterhouse or other place of slaughter, in which a bovine animal covered by point 2 of Part 1 of Chapter A of Annex 3 is slaughtered for human consumption must—
(a)take a sample comprising the brain stem for testing in accordance with of Annex 10,
(b)ensure that the animal from which the sample has been taken can be identified, and
(c)arrange for the sample to be delivered to an approved testing laboratory in accordance with paragraph 9.
(2) The Secretary of State may serve a notice on the occupier requiring the occupier to take such a sample from a bovine animal which—
(a)has originated from a country with indigenous BSE,
(b)may have potentially consumed contaminated feedingstuffs, or
(c)is progeny from a BSE infected female bovine animal.