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The Bovine Semen (England) Regulations 2007

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2007-04-17
Last updated 2020-12-31
State In force
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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3

1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).

6

OJ No. L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1.

7

OJ No L 117, 7.5.1997, p. 1.

8

OJ No. L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10. As of the date of these Regulations, this Directive was last amended by Commission Decision 2006/16/EC (OJ No. L 11, 17.1.2006, p. 21).

9

OJ No. P 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977. As of the date of these Regulations, this Directive was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 599/2004 (OJ No. L 94, 31.3.2004, p. 44.)

11

1981 c.22. Section 17(4) was repealed by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984, section 16(2) and Schedule 2.

17

Available at http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mcode/en_chapitre_2.3.5.htm

18

O.J. No L 302, 19.10.1989, p.1.

The centre must—

  • (a) have bovine animal housing, including isolation facilities that have no direct communication with the normal bovine animal housing;
  • (b) be constructed so that the bovine animal housing can be readily cleaned and disinfected; and
  • (c) be constructed or isolated so that contact with livestock outside is prevented.

The centre must—

  • (a) have at least—
  • (i) bovine animal housing, including isolation facilities that have no direct communication with the normal bovine animal housing;
  • (ii) semen collection facilities, including a separate room for the cleaning and disinfection or sterilisation of equipment;
  • (iii) facilities where semen may be processed, which need not be on the same site; and
  • (iv) a semen quarantine room, which need not be on the same site;
  • (b) be constructed or isolated so that contact with livestock outside the centre is prevented;
  • (c) be constructed so that the bovine animal housing and the semen collection and processing facilities and the semen quarantine room can be readily cleaned and disinfected; and
  • (d) be so designed that the bovine animal housing is separated from the processing facilities and both are separated from the semen quarantine room.

The centre must—

  • (a) be constructed or isolated so that contact with livestock outside is prevented; and
  • (b) have a semen storage room that can be readily cleaned and disinfected.

The bovine animals have—

  • (a) completed 28 days' quarantine in—
  • (i) a licensed quarantine centre; or
  • (ii) a quarantine centre approved in accordance with paragraph 1(a) of Chapter 1 of Annex B to the Directive by the competent authority of a member State or part of the United Kingdom,

where only other cloven-hoofed animals having at least the same health status were present; or

  • (b) undergone the tests referred to in Part 2 of Schedule 3 during the previous 12 months and have been kept in—
  • (i) another licensed collection centre, or
  • (ii) a semen collection centre authorised under the Directive in accordance with paragraph 5 of Chapter 1 of Annex B to the Directive, in the case of movement of a bovine animal kept in a semen collection centre authorised under the Directive in a member State or part of the United Kingdom.

Editorial notes

23

Functions conferred under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 on “the Minister” and “the Ministers” are exercisable by the Secretary of State. They were transferred to him by section 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002, S.I. 2002/794.

24

1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).

25

OJ No. L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1.

26

OJ No L 117, 7.5.1997, p. 1.

27

OJ No. L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10. As of the date of these Regulations, this Directive was last amended by Commission Decision 2006/16/EC (OJ No. L 11, 17.1.2006, p. 21).

28

OJ No. P 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977. As of the date of these Regulations, this Directive was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 599/2004 (OJ No. L 94, 31.3.2004, p. 44.)

30

1981 c.22. Section 17(4) was repealed by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984, section 16(2) and Schedule 2.

32

S.I. 1983/6, amended by S.I. 1988/1090 and 1990/2217.

34

S.I. 1985/1861, amended by S.I. 1987/904, 1992/671, 1995/2549, 1996/3124, 2001/380, 2002/824, and 2004/3231.

36

Available at http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mcode/en_chapitre_2.3.5.htm

37

O.J. No L 302, 19.10.1989, p.1.

42

Words in reg. 10(1) omitted (6.4.2011) by virtue of The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 4(1)

43

Words in reg. 10(4) omitted (6.4.2011) by virtue of The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 4(2)

46

Reg. 24(a)-(c) substituted for reg. 24(a)(b)(6.4.2011) by The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 7

48

Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 2 substituted (6.4.2011) by The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 9

49

Word in Sch. 5 Pt. 1 para. 2 substituted (6.4.2011) by The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 10

50

Words in Sch. 7 para. 1(c) substituted (6.4.2011) by The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 11(a)

51

Sch. 7 para. 1(c)(ii)(iia) substituted for Sch. 7 para. 1(c)(ii) (6.4.2011) by The Bovine Semen (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/454), regs. 1(c), 11(b)

Entry of bovine animals to licensed quarantine centres, licensed collection centres, domestic collection centres, or to unlicensed premises

Trade in semen to a member State

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