PART 2

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Determining compliance deadlines
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1
The first compliance deadline falls on the expiry of the period of 30 consecutive days that the herd or animal has been kept in Scotland as a breeding herd or as a breeding bovine animal.
2
Subject to paragraph (3), each subsequent compliance deadline falls on the final day of the period—
a
of 7 months (in the case of a dairy breeding herd), or
b
of 13 months (in all other cases),
after the results of the tests of the samples taken under article 9 or 10 are notified to the Scottish Ministers under article 22.
3
Where a herd or animal is kept in Scotland as a breeding herd or a breeding bovine animal for a total of less than 30 days between two compliance deadlines—
a
a compliance deadline will not fall on the later of those compliance deadlines, and
b
the herd or animal will be treated as not having been kept in Scotland as a breeding herd or breeding bovine animal on that date.
Art. 11 in force at 1.12.2019, see art. 1(1)