Importation for breeding or rearing

(1) Subject to Part X of the Act, no person shall import a live bovine unless that person presents to the Authority in international veterinary certificate that verifies compliance with the following– (a) where the bovine is imported for breeding or rearing that the bovine– (i) shows no clinical sign of bovine brucellosis on the date of shipment; (ii) were kept in a herd in which no clinical sign of bovine brucellosis was officially reported or known during the 6 months immediately prior to date of shipment; (iii) were kept in a country or zone free from bovine brucellosis or officially free (iv) is from a herd officially free from (v) is subjected to a serological test for bovine brucellosis with negative results during the thirty days immediately prior (vi) were kept in a herd free from bovine (vii) is subject Brucella and complement fixation tests the result of which is negative during the 30 days immediately prior to date of shipment; (b) where the bovine is imported from a herd other than those in accordance with paragraph (a), that the bovine– (i) was isolated prior to the date of shipment; (ii) is subjected to two serological tests for bovine brucellosis with negative results of the two occasions; (iii) are not being eliminated as part of an eradication programme against bovine (c) where the bovine is imported for slaughter. that the bovine– (i) showed no clinical sign of bovine brucellosis on the date of shipment; (ii) are not being eliminated as part of an eradication programme against bovine (iii) were kept in a country or zone free from (iv) were kept in a herd free from bovine (v) were kept in a herd free from bovine (vi) were subjected to a serological test for bovine brucellosis with negative results 624 during thirty days immediately prior to shipment. (2) A test conducted under subregulation (1)(a) or (b) is not valid in female animals which have calved during the past fourteen days. (3) The tests conducted under subregulation (1)(b)(ii), shall be conducted on intervals of not less than thirty days with the second test conducted during the fifteen days prior to the date of shipment. (4) No person shall import a castrated male bovine for a purpose specified under subregulation (1). (5) The importation of bovine semen by a person is conditional upon the presentation of an international veterinary certificate that verifies compliance with the following– (a) where the semen is from an artificial insemination centre, that the testing programme included the buffered Brucella antigen and complement fixation tests; (b) where the semen is not from an artificial insemination centre, that the donor animals were kept– (i) in a country or zone free from bovine (ii) in a herd officially free from bovine brucellosis, showed no clinical sign of bovine brucellosis on the day of collection of the semen, and were subjected to a buffered Brucella antigen test with negative results during the 30 days prior to collection; (iii) in a herd free from bovine brucellosis. Showed no clinical sign of bovine brucellosis on the day of collection and were subjected to the buffered Brucella antigen and complement fixation tests with negative results during the 30 days prior to semen collection, (c) that the semen was collected, processed and stored in conformity with the OIE Terrestrial Code, Chapters 4.5 and 4.6., (5) The importation of in vivo derived bovine embryos by a person is conditional upon the presentation of an international veterinary certificate that verifies that the embryos were collected, processed and stored in conformity with the OIE Terrestrial Code Chapters 4.7and 4.9. (6) The importation of in vitro produced bovine embryos or oocytes by a person is conditional upon the presentation of an international veterinary certificate that verifies compliance with the following– (a) that the donor females (i) were kept in a country or zone free from (ii) were kept in a herd free from bovine brucellosis and were subjected to tests in the OIE 'Terrestrial Code. Chapter 1.3. (b) that the oocytes were fertilised with semen meeting the conditions of the OIE Terrestrial Code, Chapters 4.5 and 4.6.; (c) that the embryos or oocytes, as the case may be, were collected, processed and stored in 626 conformity with the OIE Terrestrial Code, Chapters 4.8 and 4.9.