Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement)(Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 2002

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2002 No. 2154

ANIMALS, ENGLANDANIMAL HEALTH

The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement)(Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 2002

Made 16th August 2002

Coming into force 6th September 2002

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 1, 8 and 83(2) of the Animal Health Act 19811and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, makes the following Order—

1 PRELIMINARY

PART I

PRELIMINARY

S-1 Title, extent, commencement and cessation

Title, extent, commencement and cessation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 2002 and shall extend to England only.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 6th September 2002 and shall cease to have effect on 1st February 2003.

S-2 Interpretation

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“animal” means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, sheep and swine;

“collecting centre” means premises used for the intermediate reception of animals intended to be moved elsewhere and includes any place used, whether as a market or otherwise, for the sale or trading of animals but only where the animals being sold or traded are intended for immediate slaughter thereafter;

“CPH number” means the county parish holding number assigned from time to time to any premises or part of any premises by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;

“farm” means any holding on which pigs are kept for the purpose of breeding or fattening them;

“holding” means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open air farm, any place in which animals are held, kept or handled;

“identification mark” means a mark complying with article 5;

“identification number of the holding” means the numeric code which is allotted to the holding by the Secretary of State;

“keeper” means any person having care and control of pigs even on a temporary basis but not including any person who is only a keeper because he is transporting the animals;

“market” means a market place or sale-yard or any other premises or place to which animals are brought from other places and exposed for sale; and includes any place adjoining those premises used by visitors to the market for parking vehicles and any lairage adjoining a market and used in connection with it;

“slaughterhouse” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 19952; and

“sole occupancy group” has the meaning given in the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 20023.

(2) It shall be sufficient compliance with any provision of this Order requiring or permitting the making of an application, the issue of a licence, notice or authority, the depositing of a document or the sending or giving of a document to effect this by means of a facsimile transmission service.

2 RECORDS AND IDENTIFICATION OF PIGS RECORDS OF PIGS

PART II

RECORDS AND IDENTIFICATION OF PIGS RECORDS OF PIGS

S-3 Records and notifications of holdings

Records and notifications of holdings

3.—(1) The owner or keeper of any pig on a holding shall notify in writing the Divisional Veterinary Officer for the area in which the holding is situated of—

(a)

(a) the address of the holding;

(b)

(b) the name and address of the owner or occupier of the holding;

(c)

(c) the identification number of the holding (if known to the person giving the notification); and

(d)

(d) the species of any animal kept on the holding.

(2) In the case of a holding established after this Order comes into force, the obligation imposed by paragraph (1) shall be complied with within one month of the establishment of the holding.

(3) Within one month of any change being made in the notified particulars or of any addition to the information referred to in paragraph (1), the owner or keeper of any pig on a holding shall in writing notify the Divisional Veterinary Officer of the change or the addition.

(4) The owner or keeper of a pig on a holding shall give the notified particulars to an inspector if requested to do so.

(5) In this article “Divisional Veterinary Officer” means the veterinary inspector appointed as such by the Secretary of State for the area in which the holding is situated.

S-4 Records of pigs

Records of pigs

4.—(1) The owner or keeper of a pig on a holding shall make and maintain a record—

(a)

(a) in the form set out in Schedule 1 in respect of each movement of pigs to or from the holding; and

(b)

(b) of the maximum number of pigs ordinarily present on the holding (revised at least annually).

(2) In the case of any person who sells any pig (whether by auction or by private treaty) on premises used as a market of pigs by auction, he shall (in addition to the records required by paragraph (1) above) make and retain a written record of the name and address of the vendor and purchaser of each lot of pigs, and the number of the pen or pens in which each lot was held.

(3) Every record under this article shall—

(a)

(a) be made within 36 hours after the movement or sale recorded; and

(b)

(b) be retained by the owner or keeper of the pig or owner or person in charge of the holding for a period of three years from the end of the year in which the last entry was made.

(4) Any person who is for the time being in charge of any record required to be kept under this article shall, on demand made by an inspector at any reasonable hour, produce the record and allow a copy to be made of it.

(5) Where a record required to be made under this article is made in electronic or magnetic form, references in paragraph (4)—

(a)

(a) to production of the record are, if the inspector so requires, references to its production in written form; and

(b)

(b) to taking of extracts or copies of the record, are references to the taking thereof in written form.

3 IDENTIFICATION OF PIGS

IDENTIFICATION OF PIGS

S-5 Identification marks

Identification marks

5.—(1) No person shall move a pig with a view to its being moved to a place outside Great Britain unless, before the movement commences, it is marked with an identification mark (which shall be legible for the life of the pig to which it is applied) in the form of an ear tag or of a tattoo.

(2) The identification mark referred to in paragraph (1)—

(a)

(a) shall comprise the country code “UK” and the herd mark of the holding on which the mark is applied; and

(b)

(b) shall include a distinctive number allotted to the pig by the owner or keeper of it prefixed, in the case of an ear tag, by the letter “P”.

(3) It shall not be lawful to move a pig from a holding (other than with a view to it being moved outside Great Britain) unless, before the movement commences, it is marked—

(a)

(a) in the case of a pig moving to an exhibition or show or for breeding purposes and which is intended to be returned to the premises from which it is moved, with an identification mark comprising the herd mark of the holding on which the mark is applied and a unique individual identification number allotted to the pig by the owner or keeper of it; or

(b)

(b) in all other cases—

(i) with an identification mark which complies with paragraph (2) or (3)(a); or

(ii) with an identification mark which will last at least until the pig reaches its destination and which, either by itself or by reference to a document accompanying the pig during the movement, enables the holding from which the pig was last moved to be identified.

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