Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

(a) collect, pen and mark any animal and require a keeper to arrange for the collection, penning, marking and securing of any animal;

(b) remove and retain any document or record;

(c) have access to, and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with records;

(d) where a record is kept by means of a computer, require the record to be produced in a form which may be taken away;

(e) require the production of any unused eartags, and record their numbers;

(f) take with him a representative of the European Commission acting for the purposes of Article 12 of the Council Regulation, or any other people or things he considers necessary.

(a) record the individual animal identification number of that animal in his register;

(b) complete Part 3(a) of the movement document; and

(c) in the case of an animal intended for intra-Community trade, attach a blue approved eartag in accordance with Article 22(1).".

(b) after paragraph 7(2) there shall be inserted—

(a) attach a blue approved eartag which complies with the requirements of Article 22(1) to the animal's left ear; and

(b) enter the individual animal identification number in his register and in the movement document.