The Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990
This Order–requires the owners or persons in charge of female bovine animals to keep records of the date of birth, breed, sex and dam of calves of such animals (article 9);enables a veterinary inspector to test a bovine animal and take samples from it for the purpose of establishing whether his reasonable supposition that the Order has not been complied with is correct (article 10); andprovides for the marking of bovine animals with a distinguishing mark so as to distinguish them from other bovine animals (article 7).