The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Identification of vaccinated animals

17.—(1) The Department shall provide to every person vaccinating an animal under regulation 16 or issued with a licence permitting suppressive vaccination or protective vaccination, sufficient eartags to affix an eartag to every animal which may be vaccinated under that licence.

(2) Each eartag shall carry such information as the Department considers necessary to identify the animal to which it is affixed as a vaccinated animal.

(3) Any person vaccinating an animal referred to in paragraph (1) shall—

(a) identify it immediately after vaccination by affixing an eartag;

(b) make a written record of that vaccination containing the following information—

(i) the date,

(ii) the place,

(iii) a description of the animal;

(c) ensure that the Department and the keeper of the animal receives a copy of that record; and

(d) retain that record for a period of six years.

(4) Records shall be in a form approved by the Department.

(5) Every person provided with eartags under this regulation shall return unused eartags to the Department on demand and without delay.

(6) A person vaccinating an animal shall ensure that in the case of any animal to which paragraph (1) applies, the fact that the animal has been vaccinated shall inform the Department to enable the vaccination to be recorded on the Department’s database.