Cattle Database Regulations 1998 (No. 1796 of 1998).

These Regulations provide for the enforcement of article 7.1 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 820/97 and article 6.3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2629/97 which relate to the notification of birth, movement and death of cattle to a central database. It is an offence to fail to notify in accordance with that legislation and in accordance with these Regulations (reg. 5). The Regulations specify how notification must be made, and empower the Minister to charge for the provision of information stored on the database (regs. 6-10). In addition, the Regulations amend the Cattle Identification Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/871) at regulation 17. They amend regulation 13 of the Cattle Identification Regulations so as to reflect the provisions relating to notification of births in Council Regulation (EC) No. 820/97. They amend regulation 18 of the Cattle Identification Regulations to make provision for affixing bar codes to the new-style passport. They also amend regulations 26 and 27 to ensure that the times for the return of passports are the same as the times for reporting deaths. They insert a new regulation 31A to specify that the veterinary authority and the competent authority for the purposes of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 494/98 (slaughter of unmarked animals) shall be the appropriate Minister.