Cattle Passports Order 1996
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1996/1686 |
| Year | 1996 |
1996 No. 1686
ANIMALSANIMAL HEALTH
The Cattle Passports Order 1996
Made 28th June 1996
Coming into force 1st July 1996
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1 and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 19811, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Cattle Passports Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st July 1996.
Application and interpretation
2.—(1) This Order shall apply in relation to cattle born in Great Britain on or after the coming into force of this Order, and to cattle imported into Great Britain on or after that date.
(2) In this Order —
“calf passport” means a document in such form as may be approved by the appropriate Minister for the purposes of moving calves under 28 days old in accordance with article 4 below;
“cattle” means domestic animals of the bovine species (including Bubalus bubalis);
“cattle passport” means a document containing the information set out in the Schedule to this Order in the form issued by the appropriate Minister with sufficient space for it to be completed by a succession of keepers;
“holding” means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open air farm, any place in which animals are held, kept or handled, but does not include a border inspection post specified for the purposes of importing live animals from outside the European Union;
“import” and “export” mean import and export into and out of Great Britain;
“keeper” means any natural or legal person having care and control of animals, even on a temporary basis.
(3) In this Order any reference to a Community instrument is to that instrument as amended at the date this Order is made.
(4) Any licence issued under this Order shall be in writing and may be made subject to conditions and may be amended or revoked by notice in writing at any time.
Movement of animals with cattle passports
3.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Order, no person shall move cattle on to or off any holding, or between separately managed herds on the same holding, unless the animal is accompanied by a cattle passport which has been issued and duly completed in accordance with this Order and which bears the same number as the ear tag attached to the animal.
(2) Any cattle passport issued under the provisions of this Order shall remain the property of the appropriate Minister and shall be produced or surrendered to an officer of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State or the local authority on demand.
(3) The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State may at any time issue a licence for cattle to be moved without a passport if he is satisfied that it is necessary to do so and that it is not practicable to obtain a passport.
Movement of calves under 28 days without a cattle passport
4.—(1) The requirement for a cattle passport shall not apply in the case of calves under 28 days old provided that the provisions of this article are complied with.
(2) If it moves off a holding, each animal shall be accompanied by a completed calf passport which has been completed and signed by the keeper of the animal at the holding of birth and any subsquent keeper in the same way as a cattle passport.
(3) The calf passport shall be completed at any market to which the animal is taken as if it were a cattle passport.
(4) If the animal is sold, the calf passport duly completed shall be given by the seller to the buyer.
(5) The animal shall not be moved between holdings more than twice in the 28 day period, except that for the purposes of this paragraph movement between two holdings through a market shall count as one movement.
(6) The person who is the keeper of the animal when it reaches the age of 28 days shall, within 15 days of it reaching that age and in any event before the animal is moved off a holding again, apply to the appropriate Minister for a passport for it, using the calf passport duly completed in accordance with this article as an application form; and the animal shall not be moved off the holding until the cattle passport has been received.
(7) Nothing in this article shall prevent the keeper of an animal which has not been moved off its holding of origin applying for a cattle passport for an animal before it reaches the age of 28 days using an application form in the form approved under article 6 below, but if he does so he shall not move the animal off the holding of origin until he has received the passport.
Imported cattle
5.—(1) The requirement for cattle to be accompanied by a cattle passport shall not apply in the case of cattle imported for slaughter.
(2) In the case of cattle imported other than for slaughter, the requirement for cattle to be accompanied by a cattle passport shall not apply to the movement between the place the cattle enter Great Britain and the place of destination declared on the health certificate accompanying the animal; and where the place of destination is a market, the requirement shall in addition not apply to the movement between that market and the first holding to which the animal is sent from the market.
Application for a passport
6.—(1) Any person who keeps cattle (other than cattle which have been moved using a calf passport in accordance with article 4 above) shall apply for a cattle passport within 28 days of an animal being marked with an ear tag in accordance with the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 19952or, in the case of an animal imported into Great Britain, within 14 days of arrival.
(2) An application for a cattle passport shall be made in writing to the appropriate Minister and shall be in such form as the appropriate Minister shall approve.
(3) The application shall be signed by or on behalf of the keeper.
(4) The application shall contain the following information in all cases —
(a)
(a) the ear tag number, breed and sex of the animal; and
(b)
(b) such other information as the appropriate Minister may reasonably require.
(5) In the case of an animal born in Great Britain, the application form shall also contain the following information —
(a)
(a) the official County, Parish, Holding and Herd number of the herd of birth;
(b)
(b) the address of the holding;
(c)
(c) the date of birth of the animal;
(d)
(d) the ear tag number or other identification of the dam as provided for in the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995.
(6) In the case of an animal imported into Great Britain the application form shall also contain the following information —
(a)
(a) the country of origin;
(b)
(b) the date the animal arrived in Great Britain;
(c)
(c) the official County, Parish, Holding and Herd number of the herd into which the animal was first introduced following arrival in Great Britain;
(d)
(d) the address of the holding;
(e)
(e) in the case of an animal imported from another part of the European Economic Area, the ear tag number;
(f)
(f) in the case of an animal imported from outside the European Economic Area, the identification mark of the animal at the time of importation.
Completion of cattle passports when cattle are moved off holdings
7.—(1) When cattle are moved off the holding of birth (or the first holding after arrival in Great Britain) for the purposes of sale or slaughter, the keeper shall complete and sign the box headed “seller’s details” in Part II of the cattle passport for each animal before the animal is moved off the holding.
(2) When cattle are moved off any subsequent holding (other than a market) for the purposes of sale or slaughter, the keeper shall complete and sign the next empty box headed “seller’s details” in Part II of the cattle passport for each animal before the animal is moved off the holding.
(3) When cattle are moved from one herd to another on the same holding, the keeper of each herd shall complete and sign the next empty boxes headed “seller’s details”...
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