1.—(1) For the purpose of monitoring under Article 6, a person who has in their possession or under their control the body of a bovine animal that must be tested for BSE in accordance with point 3.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III (read with Article 2 of Commission Decision 2009/719/EC) must, unless directed otherwise by the Welsh Ministers—
(a)within 24 hours of the death of the animal make arrangements with another person for that person to collect the body and to deliver it to an approved sampling site or to an Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) veterinary investigation centre; or
(b)within 72 hours of the death of the animal deliver the body direct to an approved sampling site or an APHA veterinary investigation centre that has a trained person available to take a sample from the body,
and failure to do so is an offence.
(2) A person with whom arrangements are made for the delivery of a body for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) must, unless directed otherwise by the Welsh Ministers—
(a)identify the site or centre that will carry out the sampling; and
(b)ensure it is delivered to that site or centre so as to arrive there within 72 hours,
and failure to do so is an offence.
(3) The periods of 24 and 72 hours referred to in this paragraph run from the time when the animal was discovered to have died or was killed.
(4) The owner of the dead bovine animal is responsible for the expense incurred by the sampling site operator for carrying out the sampling.
(5) If the owner of the dead bovine animal has any outstanding invoice payable to the operator of the sampling site, that operator may refuse to take delivery of any live or dead animals from that owner until any outstanding invoice has been paid.