17.—(1) A keeper must comply with Article 6(1) of the Council Regulation and complete the movement document in accordance with this article.
(2) Any keeper who fails to comply with Article 6(3) of the Council Regulation is guilty of an offence against the Animal Health Act 1981.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the movement document must—
(a)be in the form set out in Schedule 3;
(b)be completed in full by the appropriate keeper as specified in that form; and
(c)in addition to containing the information required by Section C of the Annex to the Council Regulation, be completed by the keeper with the information in Schedule 3, including—
(i)in the case of an animal identified in accordance with Articles 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(b) of the Council Regulation, the code on the first means of identification and, if it is different, the code on the second means of identification; or
(ii)in the case of any other animal, the details required to be entered in the movement document under Schedule 1.
(4) A market operator may complete an electronically generated movement document in a form other than that set out in Schedule 3, provided that it—
(a)contains the information in Section C of the Annex to the Council Regulation and paragraph (3)(c)(i) or (3)(c)(ii) of this article; and
(b)is printed and signed by the market operator.
(5) For the purposes of Article 6(3) of the Council Regulation, the minimum period for which the keeper at the holding of destination must keep the movement document is 3 years from the date of the movement of an animal on to his or her holding.
18. When animals are moved from a market, the market operator must enter the lot number he or she allocated to those animals under article 31(1) in the movement document in addition to the information he or she is required to enter in that movement document under the Council Regulation and article 17.
19.—(1) In the case of an animal moved to another holding—
(a)upon the animal’s arrival at that other holding, the transporter must give the movement document to the keeper at that holding; and
(b)the keeper at that holding must send a copy of the movement document to the local authority within 3 days of the animal arriving at the holding.
(2) In the case of an animal moved from a holding for consignment outside the United Kingdom, the keeper at that holding must send a copy of the movement document to the local authority within 3 days of the animal leaving the holding.