Volume 5: Animal Health, 1989-96
5. Cattle-tracking
New record-keeping requirements come into force

5.61 On 4 September 1990 Mr Alan Lawrence, AHD, BSE and Related Issues, forwarded a submission to Mr Gummer, inviting him to make the following orders:

1. the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990, which would require owners of bovine animals to identify them and keep a record of calves born into the herd, including the identification of the dam. This would have to be done within 36 hours of birth in the case of dairy animals or within seven days for all other cattle. The Order would also impose a duty on subsequent owners to link any replacement identification in their records to the previous one. The movement of an unidentified animal would be prohibited;
2. the Movement of Animals (Records) (Amendments) Order 1990, which would make a simple amendment to the 1960 Order, requiring that records be retained for ten years instead of the current three years; and
3. the Tuberculosis (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990, to 'amend the Tuberculosis (England and Wales) Order 1984 by removing the identification and marking provisions from the Order and incorporating them (with minor amendments) into the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990'. ¹

5.62 The Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990, the Movement of Animals (Records) (Amendments) Order 1990, and the Tuberculosis (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990 came into force on 15 October 1990.