25.—(1) It is an offence for a keeper to fail to comply with Article 6(1) of the Council Regulation and complete the movement document in a form approved by the Welsh Ministers except that the identities of the animals moved may be recorded at the holding of destination where that holding is a central point of recording and the animals are transported in accordance with Section C, point 2(a) of the Annex.
(2) It is an offence for the keeper at the holding of destination to fail to comply with Article 6(3) of the Council Regulation and to fail to keep the movement documents in chronological order.
(3) For the purposes of Article 6(3) the minimum period for which the keeper at that holding must keep the movement document is 3 years from the date of the movement of an animal onto their holding.
26.—(1) In the case of an animal moved to another holding—
(a)upon the animal’s arrival at that other holding, the transporter must give the movement document to the keeper at that holding; and
(b)the keeper at that holding must send a copy of the movement document to the local authority within 3 days of the animal arriving at the holding.
(2) In the case of an animal moved from a holding to a port and intended for consignment outside Great Britain, the keeper at that holding must send a copy of the movement document to the local authority within 3 days of the animal leaving the holding.