Determining compliance deadlines
11.—(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.