Amendment of the Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
7.—(1) The Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 2(2) after the definition of “member state” there shall be inserted the definition—
““notifiable bovine animal” means a bovine animal over 24 months of age which—
(a)dies on any farm or in transport; or
(b)has been killed otherwise than for human consumption;”.
(3) In regulation 10 at the beginning of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following words—
“Subject to paragraph (1A),”.
(4) In regulation 10, after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(1A) If a notifiable bovine animal with a cattle passport dies, the keeper will be treated as having complied with paragraph (1) if, on notifying the fact in accordance with regulation 3(1) of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Monitoring Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, the keeper surrenders the cattle passport to the Department.”.