Article 14 Ear tag samples of tissueI1
Scotland
Subject to F1paragraph (3), an ear tag sample of tissue is taken in accordance with this article if it is extracted from the animal from an official ear tag or a management tag and the vessel used to collect the sample complies with the conditions in paragraph (2).
The conditions in this paragraph are—
the vessel used to collect the sample must have a pre-printed identification number which is identical to the official ear tag number or the number on the management tag (as the case may be), and
the identification number—
is notified along with the animal's ear tag number when the sample is submitted, and
in the case of a sample taken from a bovine animal in a breeding herd, is used only once within the herd.
The keeper must not take (or arrange to have taken) an ear tag sample of tissue from any bovine animal from which a sample has previously been collected from a management tag for the purpose of submitting for sampling under this Order.
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For the purposes of this article, “collected” includes any attempt to collect a sample.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in art. 14(1) substituted (1.7.2025) by The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/176), arts. 1(2), 2(a)(i)
- F2
Art. 14(4) omitted (1.7.2025) by virtue of The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/176), arts. 1(2), 2(a)(ii)