Article 12 Application of test

The keeper of the bovine animal to which a test must be applied in accordance with article 9(1), (3), (4) or (7) or article 10(1) must arrange for an approved veterinary surgeon to apply the test and is to meet the expense of its application.

Paragraph (1) does not apply where any bovine animal has had applied to it within the relevant periods a diagnostic test for tuberculosis for purposes other than those of articles 9 (other than a short interval test referred to in article 9(9)) and 10.