The Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995

Records

Notifications of holdings

4.—(1) It shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of any bovine animals on a holding to notify in writing the Divisional Veterinary Officer for the area in which the holding is situated of—

(a)the address of the holding;

(b)the name and address of the owner or occupier of the holding;

(c)the identification number of the holding (if known to the person giving the notification); and

(d)the species of any livestock kept on the holding.

(2) In the case of a holding established before this article comes into force,—

(a)where a request in writing has been sent to the owner or person in charge of any bovine animals on the holding by the Divisional Veterinary Officer before the end of the period ending one month after this article comes into force, that duty shall be complied with within one month after that request is sent to him or within one month after this article comes into force, if later; and

(b)in any other case, that duty shall be complied with within two months after this article comes into force.

(3) In the case of a holding established after this article comes into force, the duty imposed by paragraph (1) above shall be complied with within one month of the establishment of the holding.

(4) Within one month of any change being made in the notified particulars or of any addition to the information referred to in paragraph (1) above, the owner or person in charge of bovine animals on the holding shall in writing notify the Divisional Veterinary Officer of the change or the addition.

(5) The owner or person in charge of any bovine animal on the holding shall give the notified particulars to an inspector if requested to do so.

(6) In this article “Divisional Veterinary Officer” means the veterinary inspector appointed as such by the Minister for the area in which the holding is situated.

Records of bovine animals

5.—(1) The owner or person in charge of bovine animals on a holding shall make a record in the form set out in Schedule 2, or in a form to the like effect, in respect of—

(a)each movement of bovine animals to or from the holding;

(b)the birth or death of a bovine animal on the holding; and

(c)each change of ownership of bovine animals which takes place at a market or other holding without the animals being moved from the holding.

(2) A record under this article which relates—

(a)to the movement of an animal shall be made within 36 hours of the movement;

(b)to the birth of an animal in a dairy herd shall be made within 7 days of the birth;

(c)to the birth of an animal otherwise than in a dairy herd shall be made within 30 days of the birth;

(d)to the death of an animal shall be made within 7 days of the death;

(e)to the replacement of an ear tag shall be made within 36 hours of the replacement.

(3) The owner or person in charge of bovine animals on a holding shall make a record of the number of such animals present on the holding; and the record shall be updated at least annually.

(4) It shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of any bovine animals to inform in writing—

(a)the person who, in relation to a market to which they are moved, is the market operator; or

(b)the owner or person in charge of an assembly centre approved under regulation 5 of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1993(1) to which they are moved,

of the following particulars—

(i)the ear tag number of each animal;

(ii)the date of the movement;

(iii)the place from which the movement was made; and

(iv)the place to which the movement was made.

(5) The reference in the form set out in Schedule 2 to a dam’s identification mark is to—

(a)the ear tag number; or

(b)in the case of a female bovine animal to which an approved identification mark has been applied under the 1990 Order, that mark.

(6) In relation to records of bovine animals on a farm which are made before 1st April 1995 it shall be sufficient compliance with paragraphs (1) to (3) above if the owner or person in charge of the animals makes records in accordance with the Movement of Animals (Records) Order 1960(2) and the 1990 Order; and, notwithstanding article 1(2), those Orders shall have effect accordingly.

Records of calves at markets

6.—(1) No person shall bring a calf to a market unless upon arrival he has furnished the market operator with a written declaration signed by the owner of the calf or his duly authorised agent stating—

(a)the name and address of the owner of the calf;

(b)the ear tag number of the calf;

(c)that the calf has not been brought to a market before or, as the case may be, has been brought to a market only once during the previous 28 days; and

(d)where the calf has been brought to a market once during the previous 28 days, the address of the market and the date on which the calf was brought there.

(2) Where a calf has been sold, and before its removal from the market, the market operator shall—

(a)in the case of a sale by auction; and

(b)upon request made by the purchaser, in the case of a sale by private treaty;

supply to the purchaser of the calf details in writing of—

(i)the ear tag of the calf;

(ii)the date of the sale of the calf and the address of the market at which it was sold; and

(iii)where the calf has been brought to a market once within the previous 28 days, the address of that market and the date on which the calf was brought there.

(3) Every market operator shall keep a record of the details supplied to a purchaser of a calf for the purposes of paragraph (2) above and of the name and address of that purchaser.

(4) In this article, “calf” means a bovine animal under 12 weeks of age.

Retention and production of records under articles 5 and 6

7.—(1) The person who makes any record under paragraphs (1) to (3) of article 5 or in accordance with paragraph (6) of that article, or the person in charge of the record, if different, shall retain it,—

(a)where it relates to a farm, for a period of ten years; and

(b)where it relates to any other holding, for a period of three years,

from the end of the calendar year in which the last entry was made.

(2) The person who receives any record under article 5(4) or the person in charge of the record, if different, shall retain it for a period of six months from the date of the movement to which it relates.

(3) A market operator—

(a)to whom a declaration is furnished under article 6(1) shall retain the declaration for the period of six months from the date on which it is so furnished; and

(b)shall retain any record kept by him under article 6(3) for the period of six months from the date of the sale of any calf to which it relates.

(4) Any person who is for the time being in charge of any record required to be retained under this article shall, on demand made by an inspector at any reasonable time, produce the record and allow a copy of it or an extract from it to be taken.

(5) Where a record required to be retained under this article is retained in electronic or magnetic form, references in paragraph (4) above—

(a)to production of the record are, if the inspector so requires, references to its production in written form; and

(b)to taking of copies of the record are references to the taking thereof in written form.