Regulation 6 Schedule 4 (notification of movement or death)

for sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) substitute—

“(1)

When an animal is slaughtered at a slaughterhouse, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must notify the Secretary of State of the death within seven days—

(a)

using the Secretary of State’s interactive website;

(b)

using the Secretary of State’s automated telephony service;

(c)

using software approved by the Secretary of State; or

(d)

by completing the death details in the animal’s passport and returning it to the Secretary of State,

and must return the animal’s passport to the Secretary of State within seven days.

(2)

If an animal is slaughtered outside a slaughterhouse but sent to a slaughterhouse for dressing, the keeper must complete the death details in the passport and send it with the animal to the slaughterhouse, and the occupier of the slaughterhouse must notify the death by returning the passport to the Secretary of State within seven days of the death of the animal.

(3)

In any other case, when an animal dies or is killed the keeper must notify the Secretary of State of the death within seven days—

(a)

using the Secretary of State’s interactive website;

(b)

using the Secretary of State’s automated telephony service;

(c)

using software approved by the Secretary of State; or

(d)

by completing the death details in the animal’s passport and returning it to the Secretary of State,

and must return the animal’s passport to the Secretary of State within seven days.

(3A)

But where an animal’s passport has been taken and retained by an inspector under regulation 10(3)(d), a requirement under this paragraph to return the passport to the Secretary of State does not apply for so long as the passport is so retained.”, and

omit sub-paragraph (5).