Article 6 Slaughter requirements
Where an animal is marked at an approved liveweight centre, and the Board have by means of notices prominently displayed at the centre required that animals of a description which includes that animal be slaughtered by a date specified in the notices, or before the end of a period of days so specified beginning with the date on which it was so marked with or without a further requirement that the slaughter shall be at a place or within an area so specified, then–
the owners of the animal at the time of its removal from that centre shall be deemed to have notice of those requirements (which are hereinafter called the slaughter requirements), and
the animal shall be slaughtered in accordance with the slaughter requirements.
Accordingly, references in the following provisions of this article to the date by which an animal must be or should have been slaughtered are references to the date specified under paragraph (1) above or to the last day of the period so specified as the case may require.
No person having notice of the slaughter requirements with respect to an animal shall–
sell the animal on or before the date by which it must be slaughtered without informing the buyer, in writing, of those requirements;
sell the animal after the date by which it should have been slaughtered; or
have the animal in his possession or under his control after the date by which it should have been slaughtered.
Where the slaughter requirements with respect to an animal include a requirement that the animal shall be slaughtered in the United Kingdom, no person having notice of that requirement shall consign that animal to another Member State or export it to a third country.