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All livestock holdings (the land and buildings used for keeping livestock) must have a county parish holding (CPH)number.

If you plan to use extra land or buildings temporarily (for less than a year), and they do not have a CPH number, you must get either a:

• temporary land association (TLA) - if theyre within 10 miles of your CPHs main livestock handling area
• temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number - if theyre more than 10 miles from your main livestock gathering area

You must also do this if you have a 7000 series (landless keeper) CPH number.

You can only get a TLA or tCPH if your livestock will not mix with someone elses livestock.

If your livestock will mix with someone elses livestock, youll need to record and report the movement onto their CPH.

You can apply for one or more TLA or tCPH and you can renew them.

Getting a TLA: what it means for you

A TLA associates the land or building youre using temporarily to your existing CPH number.

This means you can treat the land or building as part of theCPHits associated with.

You do not need to:

• record or report livestock movements between the TLA land or building and yourCPH
• follow the standstill rule if youre moving livestock between the TLA land or building and yourCPH

You must still:

• follow the standstill rule if youre moving livestock from the TLA land or building to a differentCPH
• record and report any livestock movements to the TLA land or building from a differentCPHagainst your CPH

Your TLA land or building will be treated as part of your CPHfor disease testing and restrictions.

ATLAwill share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:

• do not need separate identification tags for animals kept on aTLA
• must use yourCPHnumber when you order new or replacement tags

The standstill rule

The standstill rule protects the health of the national herd and flock. It reduces the spread ofinfectious diseases.

If you move cattle, sheep or goats onto your land from a different CPH, you must not move any:

• cattle, sheep or goats off your holding for 6 days
• pigs off your holding for 6 days

If you move pigs onto your land from a different CPH, you must not move any:

• pigs off your holding for 20 days
• cattle, sheep or goats off your holding for 6 days

Day 1 is the day after the arrival of an animal. If an animal arrives on a Monday, day 1 is Tuesday and day 6 is Sunday. You can move your animals after the sixth day, which would be Monday.

When you move deer or poultry, you do not need to follow a standstill rule.

You can move livestock off your land during the standstill period if you move them directly to slaughter. This includes a red (slaughter only) livestock market.

Read all the exemptions to the standstill rule.

Check you can apply for aTLA

You can apply for a TLA if:

• you have a CPH number
• any part of the land or building you want to associate with your CPHis within 10 miles of your main livestock handling area
• your livestock will not mix with livestock kept by someone else on that land or in buildings
• the land or buildings are in England or Wales
• the land you want to associate is in the same bovine TB risk area as your CPH (if you keep bovine animals)

If you have a piece of land that is in both England and Scotland, you cannot get a TLA for any part of the land.

If you have a permanent CPH number

You must also be registered as a livestock keeper with Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) before applying for a TLA. You can either call or email them.

Getting a tCPH number: what it means for you

You must treat your tCPH as a separateCPHto any otherCPHyou hold. This means that you must:

• keep a separate holding register
• keep livestock reported as being on yourtCPHseparate from those reported as being on any otherCPH
• record and report livestock movements between yourtCPHand any otherCPH
• followthe standstill rule when you move livestock between yourtCPHand any other CPH
• keep identification documents and cattle passports for livestock you move to yourtCPH

AtCPHwill share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:

• do not need separate identification tags for animals kept on atCPH
• must use yourCPHnumber when you order new or replacement tags

Bovine TB testing andtCPHs

You must follow the routine bovine TB testing interval for the bovine TB risk area that applies to yourtCPH.

The exception is when yourtCPHis in the low risk area and your CPHis in the high risk or edge area. Then you must follow the testing interval for your CPH.

When yourtCPHis in the high risk area and your CPHis in the low risk area,APHAmay ask you to carry out testing on your CPHmore often than once every 4 years.

This will depend on the number and frequency of livestock movements between your CPHand yourtCPH.

You should test yourtCPH

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