1.Each keeper of animals, with the exception of the transporter, shall keep an up-to-date register containing at least the information listed in Section B of the Annex.
2.[F1This article does not prevent the exercise by the appropriate Minister of any power to] require keepers to enter further information in the register referred to in paragraph 1, in addition to that listed in Section B of the Annex.
3.The register shall be in a format approved by the competent authority, kept in manual or computerised form, and be available at all times on the holding and to the competent authority, upon request, for a minimum period to be determined by the competent authority but which may not be less than three years.
4.By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the register of information required by Section B of the Annex shall be optional F2... where a centralised computer database which already contains this information is operational.
5.Each keeper shall supply the competent authority, upon request, with all information concerning the origin, identification and, where appropriate, the destination of animals which the keeper has owned, kept, transported, marketed or slaughtered in the last three years.
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Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 5(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/814), regs. 1, 10(6)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Art. 5(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/814), regs. 1, 10(6)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Art. 5(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/814), regs. 1, 10(6)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)