Regulation 3 Enforcement of Article 4 of the Council RegulationI1

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 3 coming into force by Cattle Identification 1998 reg. 1
reg. 3(4) words substituted by Animal Health and Welfare 2019 Sch. 1 para. 7(b)
reg. 3(1)(a) words inserted by Cattle Identification 2026 reg. 2(3)
reg. 3(1)(a) words substituted by Animal Health and Welfare 2019 Sch. 1 para. 7(a)
reg. 3(3) words substituted by Animal Health and Welfare 2019 Sch. 1 para. 7(b)
reg. 3 heading words substituted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(a)
reg. 3(1) substituted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(b)
reg. 3(2) words substituted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(c)
reg. 3(3) substituted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(d)
reg. 3(4) omitted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(e)
reg. 3(5) words substituted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(f)(i)
reg. 3(5) words substituted by Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) 2025 reg. 3(4)(f)(ii)

(1)

The Department—

(a)

shall be the competent authority for the purposes of approving eartags for the purposes of Article 4.1 of the Council Regulation and for the purposes of giving permission for their replacement under Article 4.5 of that Regulation; and

(b)

on application from the keeper of a herd, shall allocate in relation to such eartags for animals in that herd the unique identification codes necessary to ensure that the eartags comply with Article 1.1 and 1.2 of the Commission Regulation.

(2)

The person responsible for identifying an animal in accordance with Article 4.1 of the Council Regulation shall be its keeper.

(3)

Subject to paragraph (4), for the purposes of Article 4.2 of the Council Regulation, the periods within which the keeper of an animal born after the coming into operation of these Regulations shall attach approved eartags to the animal shall—

(a)

in the case of an animal born in a dairy herd, be within 36 hours of the birth of the animal;

(b)

in the case of any other animal, be—

(i)

within 30 days of its birth, if it was born before 1st January 2000, or

(ii)

within 20 days of its birth if it was born on or after 1st January 2000,

and in any case before the animal leaves the holding on which it was born.

(4)

For the purposes of Article 4.2 of the Council Regulation, the periods within which the keeper of an animal born after 1st January 1998 but before the coming into operation of these Regulations shall attach approved eartags to the animal shall be—

(a)

in the case of an animal born in a dairy herd, be within 20 days of the date of coming into operation of these Regulations; and

(b)

in the case of any other animal, be within 30 days of that date,

and, in any event, before the animal leaves the holding on which it was kept on the date of coming into operation of these Regulations.

(5)

Any person who, in relation to any animal, fails to comply with Article 4.1 of the Council Regulation within the period specified in respect of that animal by paragraph (3) or (4) shall be guilty of an offence.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 3 in operation at 1.10.1998, see reg. 1