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Paragraph 1 Record keeping

(1)

Subject to sub paragraph (4), the occupier shall create and maintain the following records in respect of the premises–

(a)

the number of each species of animal;

(b)

for each species of susceptible animal, the number of dead animals, the number suspected of being infected and the number suspected of being contaminated; and

(c)

the stock of milk, milk products, meat, meat products, carcases, hides and skins, wool, semen, embryos, ova, slurry, manure, fodder and used litter,

and immediately communicate such records to F1an authorised veterinary inspector in the form required.

(2)

Records shall be kept in a form approved for the purpose by the Scottish Ministers.

(3)

The occupier shall–

(a)

maintain the records kept under sub paragraph (1)(a) and by updating them within 24 hours of any change;

(b)

communicate changes to the records kept under sub paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) (including new births and deaths) within 24 hours; and

(c)

make all such records available to an inspector on demand, for verification by such inspector, at each visit to the premises.

(4)

This paragraph does not apply to any person subject to paragraph 1 of Schedule 4.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in sch. 2 para. 1(1) substituted (28.6.2013) by The Animal Health (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/173), arts. 1(1), 17(3)(b)

Notes on the whole SSI

Textual amendments

F1

1981 c. 22, amended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3293). The functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) are now exercisable by the Scottish Ministers. They were transferred, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.