Central database and movement document
- Complete a movement document when moving sheep or goats off your holding and keep records for 3 years
Welsh Statutory Instrument
2015
United Kingdom
The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2015
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Supply of movement document
- Provide movement document or printout when sheep/goats arrive at your holding
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Title, application and commencement
Interpretation
Competent authority
Authorisations
Approval of identification devices
Additional tags and identification devices with additional information
Colour of identification devices
Destruction of identification devices
Identification of animals on or after 1 January 2016
Identification of animals intended for slaughter
Animals born and identified before 1 January 2016
Application of Part 4
Removal or replacement of means of identification
Replacement of the means of identification for animals identified according to article 9 or article 11
Replacement of lost or illegible means of identification for animals identified according to article 10 or article 11
Identification of goats
Re-identification of goats
Application of Part 6
Removal or replacement of identification marks
Replacement of a single identification mark on a double-tagged animal
Replacement of an identification mark on a single tagged animal
Re-identification of animals identified under the previous Orders with a means of identification that does not contain a unique number
Holding register
Inventory of animals
It is an offence for a keeper to fail to...
Supply of information
Markets
Replacement of identification marks lost at markets
Contingency planning for power and equipment failures
Receipt of animals from a member State
Receipt of animals from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Crown Dependencies
Identification of animals imported from third countries
Loss of methods of identification applied in a third country
Identification and recording of animals for export
Defence related to movement for emergency veterinary treatment
Powers of inspectors
Power to prohibit movement of animals
False information
Alteration of identification marks
Offences by bodies corporate
Offences by partnerships and unincorporated associations
Enforcement
Revocation
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