Article 17 Replacement of the identification mark with a different code for double-tagged animals which have lost one identification mark

(1)

This article applies where one identification mark from a double-identified animal is lost or illegible but one legible identification mark remains.

(2)

In this article and article 18 “double-identified animal” means an animal identified with two identification marks.

(3)

If the animal is on its holding of birth the keeper must replace a lost or illegible means of identification or older means of identification with another means of identification and —

(a)

ensure that at least one means of identification or older means of identification on an animal is an eartag; and

(b)

record information about the replacement in columns 1, 2 and 3 of section 2 of the register.

(4)

If the animal is no longer on its holding of birth the keeper must either—

(a)

replace a lost or illegible identification mark or with a replacement means of identification and—

(i)

ensure that at least one identification mark on an animal is an eartag; and

(ii)

record information about the replacement in columns 1, 2 and 3 of section 2 of the register together with the full identification code on the replacement means of identification in column 4; and

(iii)

record the letter or letters and flockmark or herdmark on the remaining means of identification or older means of identification, or the full code on a method of identification, in columns 5 and 6 of section 2 of the register; or

(b)

replace the lost or illegible means of identification or older means of identification with an identification tag which has on it the flockmark or herdmark of the holding of birth of the animal.