The Tuberculosis in Animals (England) Order 2021

Pre-movement testing

19.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a person must not move a bovine animal from any premises, unless—

(a) a skin test has been applied to it no more than 60 days before the date of movement; and

(b) the results of the test have been read by a veterinary inspector or an approved veterinary surgeon and that veterinary inspector or approved veterinary surgeon has confirmed to the keeper that the test reading did not reveal the animal to be a reactor or an inconclusive reactor.

(2) Where a reading of the test in paragraph (1)(b) does not yield a negative result for tuberculosis, the requirements in article 8(7) and the powers of an inspector in article 8(8) apply.

(3) Bovine animals of the following descriptions do not require a skin test prior to movement from the premises on which they are being kept—

(a) animals in a herd that is subject to routine testing for tuberculosis less frequently than annually;

(b) animals that are under 42 days old at the date of the movement;

(c) animals that are from an area in which they would normally only require testing less frequently than annually, but are subject to routine annual testing for the following public health reasons only—

(i) they are on a farm considered by the Secretary of State to be a farm that is open for visits by the public;

(ii) they are part of a herd from which the Secretary of State has approved the sale of raw cow’s milk for drinking directly to the end consumer, either by retail sale of bottled milk or as part of an on-farm catering business; or

(iii) they are part of a herd from which raw cow’s milk is regularly used for the manufacture of unpasteurised cheese or other unpasteurised dairy products; and

(d) animals at a licensed semen collection centre(1).

(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the following movements—

(a) movements specified in Schedule 2; or

(b) any movement under the authority of a licence issued under this Order.

(1)

Semen collection centres are licensed by the Secretary of State under regulation 5 of the Bovine Semen (England) Regulations 2007, S.I. 2007/1319.