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SCHEDULETRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

Testing and sampling requirements – first compliance deadline

2.—(1) This paragraph applies where a person is, immediately before the coming into force day, keeping a herd or bovine animal in Scotland, as a breeding herd or breeding bovine animal, and has done so for a total of less than 30 days in the period starting on 1st January 2013 and ending immediately before the coming into force day.

(2) Where this paragraph applies—

(a)subject to the modification mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(c), the keeper of the herd or animal is to be treated as subject to the duties imposed by Chapter 2 of Part 2 of this Order in relation to that herd or animal as soon as the herd or animal has been kept for a total of not less than 30 days;

(b)subject to sub-paragraph (2)(c), Parts 1 to 6 of this Order apply on and after the coming into force day in relation to the keeper of that herd or animal; and

(c)article 10(1) of this Order applies subject to the modification that the reference to “the date falling 13 calendar months after this article first applies to the breeding herd or breeding bovine animal” is to be construed as a reference to the date falling 13 calendar months after the day on which the herd or animal is kept in Scotland, as a breeding herd or breeding bovine animal, for a total of not less than 30 days in the period of 1 year beginning on 1st January 2013.