10.—(1) The first compliance deadline is the date falling 13 calendar months after this article first applies to the breeding herd or breeding bovine animal.
(2) This article first applies to a herd or animal on the day on which the herd or animal has been kept in Scotland, as a breeding herd or breeding bovine animal, for a total of not less than 30 days in any period of one year beginning no earlier than the coming into force day.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5)—
(a)the second compliance deadline is the date falling 13 calendar months after the first compliance deadline; and
(b)compliance deadlines subsequently occur on the date falling 13 calendar months after the immediately preceding compliance deadline.
(4) Where in any case article 9(1) is complied with before a compliance deadline, the date of such compliance is substituted as the starting point for the determination of the next compliance deadline in relation to the breeding herd or breeding bovine animal concerned.
(5) Where a herd or animal is kept in Scotland as a breeding herd or breeding bovine animal for a total of less than 30 days in the period between two compliance deadlines—
(a)the keeper does not have to comply with article 9(1) in relation to the later of those compliance deadlines; and
(b)the herd or animal is treated, as at the later of those compliance deadlines, as not previously having been kept in Scotland.