Amendment of the Cattle (Identification of Older Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2001
11.—(1) The Cattle (Identification of Older Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2001(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “local authority” there shall be inserted the following definition:–
““notifiable bovine animal” means a bovine animal over 30 months of age which–
dies on any farm or in transit; or
has been killed otherwise than for human consumption;”.
(3) In regulation 9, at the beginning there shall be inserted the following:–
“(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below,”.
(4) In regulation 9, after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:–
“(2) If a notifiable bovine animal with a registration certificate dies, the keeper will be treated as having complied with paragraph (1) above if, on notifying the fact in accordance with regulation 3(1) of the BSE Monitoring (Scotland) Regulations 2001, the keeper surrenders the registration certificate to the Scottish Ministers or, where the Scottish Ministers have appointed an agent to receive notifications, to that agent.”.