The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Scotland) Order 2019

Replacement of management tags

16.—(1) This article applies where a management tag—

(a) has been removed in accordance with article 15, or

(b) has become otherwise detached from the animal.

(2) Where this article applies, the keeper must apply to the animal a tag that complies with the conditions provided in paragraph (3).

(3) The conditions of this paragraph are that the replacement tag—

(a) must bear the same identification number as the management tag, and

(b) must not be a management tag.

(4) The replacement of the tag under paragraph (2) must be within 28 days (or such longer period as the Scottish Ministers approve in the particular circumstances) of the keeper becoming aware—

(a) that the tag is required to be removed under article 15(1) or (2)(b),

(b) that the Scottish Ministers have approved the removal of the tag in accordance with article 15(2)(a), or

(c) that the tag has been otherwise detached from the animal.

(5) This article applies in the same way to the removal and replacement of any replacement tag applied in accordance with this article.