ANIMALS, ENGLAND Title, extent, commencement and cessation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002 and shall extend to England only. 2 This Order shall come into force on 11th February 2002 and shall cease to have effect on 1st December 2002. Application of the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995 2 1 In so far as it extends to England, the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995 shall apply as if amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article. 2 In article 2(1) the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate places— “ CPH number” means the county parish holding number assigned from time to time to any premises or part of any premises by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; ; “sole occupancy group” shall have the meaning given to it in the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002 ; . 3 For article 5(3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph— 3 It shall not be lawful to move a pig from a holding (other than with a view to it being moved outside Great Britain) unless before the movement commences it is marked— a in the case of a pig moving to an exhibition or show or for breeding purposes and which is intended to be returned to the premises from which it is moved, with an identification mark comprising the herd mark of the holding on which the mark is applied and a unique individual identification number allotted to the pig by the owner or person in charge of it; or b in all other cases— i with an identification mark which complies with paragraph (2) above, or ii with an identification mark which will last at least until the pig reaches its destination and which, either by itself or by reference to a document accompanying the pig during the movement, enables the holding from which the pig was last moved to be identified. . 4 For article 7(2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph— 2 It shall not be lawful for any person— a to move a pig to a slaughterhouse save for the purpose of slaughter within 48 hours of its arrival there; b to remove a pig from a slaughterhouse except after slaughter; or c to return a pig to a farm from a market for pigs intended for immediate slaughter. . 5 For article 8 there shall be substituted the following article— 8 1 Subject to the following provisions of this article, whenever any animal has been moved to any premises it shall not be lawful to move any pig from those premises (or any other premises in the same sole occupancy group) before the expiry of a period of 20 days from the day on which the animal first referred to was delivered to those premises. 2 The restriction contained in paragraph (1) of this article shall not apply in any of the cases set out in article 3(2) of the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002. 3 Notwithstanding the prohibition in paragraph (1) above, no account shall be taken of the following movements— a any movement referred to in article 3(3) of the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002; and b movement of a pig intended for breeding or growing from a source approved by the Minister onto any premises, when such movement is authorised in accordance with conditions set out in writing by a veterinary inspector. . 6 For article 9 there shall be substituted the following article— 9 1 No person shall move a pig from a farm to other premises for any purpose other than those set out in paragraphs (2) or (3) below unless the pig is accompanied by a completed declaration in the form set out in Schedule 2. 2 No person shall move a pig from a farm to other premises for the purposes of exhibition or show, artificial insemination or veterinary treatment or return a pig to a farm from such premises unless the pig is accompanied by a completed declaration in the form set out in Schedule 3. 3 No person shall move a pig from a farm to other premises for breeding purposes unless the pig is accompanied by a completed declaration in the form set out in Schedule 3. 4 No person shall return a pig to a farm from premises to which it was moved for breeding purposes unless the pig is accompanied by a completed declaration in the form set out in Schedule 4. 7 For article 11(3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph— 3 It shall be the duty of the person in charge of the collecting centre in the case of a movement to a farm, within the period of three days after the movement is commenced, to send a further copy of the declaration to the local authority of the area in which the collecting centre is situated. . 8 For article 13 there shall be substituted the following article— 13 1 It shall not be lawful for any person to hold a sale of pigs on a farm except in accordance with a licence issued by an inspector of the local authority for the area in which the farm is situated. 2 A licence under paragraph (1) above shall not be issued, and a sale shall not be held, unless— i the sale will comprise only pigs forming the whole or part of the standing herd of that farm, and ii no animals (other than animals moved on to the farm in accordance with the provisions of article 3(3) of the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002) have been moved on to that farm on the day of sale or within a period of 20 days preceding the day of sale. . 9 Article 14 shall be deleted. 10 After article 19 there shall be inserted the following article— Extension of definition of “animals” 20 For the purposes of the Animal Health Act 1981 in its application to this order, the definition of “animals” in section 87(2) of the Act is extended so as to comprise elephants. . 11 For Schedules 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 there shall be substituted the Schedules contained in the Schedule to this Order. Whitty Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Dated 7 February 2002