PART 3Sampling and notification requirements

Replacement of management tags

15.—(1) This article applies where a management tag—

(a)has been removed in accordance with article 14, or

(b)has otherwise become detached from the animal.

(2) Where this article applies, the keeper must apply to the animal a replacement tag that complies with the conditions in paragraph (3).

(3) The conditions are that the replacement tag—

(a)must bear the same identification number as the management tag, and

(b)must not be a management tag.

(4) The replacement tag must be applied within 28 days (or such longer period as the Welsh Ministers approve in the circumstances) of the keeper becoming aware—

(a)that the tag is required to be removed under article 14(1) or 14(2)(b),

(b)that the Welsh Ministers have approved the removal of the tag in accordance with article 14(2)(a), or

(c)that the tag has been otherwise detached from the animal.

(5) This article applies in the same way to the removal and replacement of any replacement tag applied in accordance with this article.