# The Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order–
(a) requires the owners or persons in charge of female bovine animals to keep records of the date of birth, breed, sex and dam of calves of such animals (article 9);
(b) enables a veterinary inspector to test a bovine animal and take samples from it for the purpose of establishing whether his reasonable supposition that the Order has not been complied with is correct (article 10); and
(c) provides for the marking of bovine animals with a distinguishing mark so as to distinguish them from other bovine animals (article 7).
This Order also re-enacts with certain amendments those parts of the Tuberculosis (England and Wales) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1943) and the Tuberculosis (Scotland) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/2063) revoked by the Tuberculosis (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1869) and the Tuberculosis (Scotland) (Amendment) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1908) respectively.
The Order continues to provide for the identification of bovine animals (article 4) and to prohibit the sale of, or exposure for sale, of unidentified bovine animals (article 6).
The changes of substance made by this Order are–
(a) the period within which a bovine animal must be identified has been reduced from 14 days for all bovine animals to 36 hours for bovine animals in dairy herds and 7 days in other cases (article 4(2));
(b) where possible, a record of the previous identification shall be made when a bovine animal loses its identification and is given a new identification (article 4(3));
(c) the prohibition on the movement of unidentified bovine animals has been extended to England and Wales (article 5); and
(d) the exception to the obligation to identify a bovine animal, in the case of an animal younger than 14 days which is sent directly to a slaughterhouse, has been removed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1867/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990/note
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