Get a temporary land association (TLA) or temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number

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What you must do when you have a TLA

A TLA associates the land or building you’re using temporarily to your existing CPH number. .

This means you can treat the land or building as part of the the CPH it’s it’s associated with.

You do not need to:

• record or report livestock movements between the TLA land or building and the rest of your CPH
• follow the standstill rule if you’re moving livestock between the TLA land or building and the rest of your your CPH

You must still:

• follow the standstill rule if you’re moving livestock from the TLA land or building to a different CPH
• report any livestock movements to the TLA land or building from a different CPH 

Use against your CPH numberand to report the movements. You must also record thethem movements in your holding register. Find out more about reporting and recording:

• cattle movements 

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• sheep and goat movements

• pig movements

• deer movements

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

A TLA will share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:

• do not need to order different identification tags for livestock kept on a TLA
• must use your CPH number when you order new or replacement tags

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The standstill rule

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

• morecattle, thansheep 10or milesgoats off your holding for 6 days
• pigs off your holding for 6 days

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• inpigs Englandoff oryour Wales holding for 20 days
• thatcattle, 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 own 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 a TLA

You can apply for a TLA if:

• you have a CPH number
• thatany arepart notof inthe moreland thanor onebuilding you want to associate with your CPH  is within 10 miles of your main livestock gathering area
• your livestock will not mix with livestock kept by someone else on that land or in buildings
• the land or buildings are allin rentedEngland fromor Wales
• the land you want to associate is in the same landownerbovine (ifTB it’srisk aarea groupas ofyour fieldsCPH or(if buildings) 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

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A tCPH can be for a group of fields and buildings which are all rented from the same landholder.

You must treat the land included in your tCPH as a separate to the land included in any other CPH you hold. This means that you must:

• keep a separate holding register
• keep livestock reported as being on your tCPH separate from those reported as being on any other CPH
• record and report livestock movements between your tCPH and any other CPH
• followfollow the the standstill rule when you move livestock between your tCPH and any other CPH
• keep identification documents and cattle passports for livestock you move to your tCPH

A tCPH will share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:

• do not need to order different identification tags for animals kept on a tCPH
• must use your CPH number when you order new or replacement tags

Bovine TB testing and tCPHs

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

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

When your tCPH is in the high risk area and your CPH is in the low risk area, APHA may ask you to carry out testing on your CPH more often than once every 4 years.

This will depend on the number and frequency of livestock movements between your CPH and your tCPH.

You should test your tCPH at the same time as your CPH wherever possible.

If you lose your TB free status (for example, due to a TB breakdown), APHA will apply movement restrictions.

This means you must not move cattle on or off your CPHs and tCPHs unless APHA gives you a licence to do so.

APHA will only remove these restrictions after testing or a veterinary risk assessment.

If you need advice, call APHA.

ApplyCheck you can apply for a TLA or tCPH number number

You can apply for a tCPH number if:

• you have a CPH number
• the land and buildings are in England or Wales
• the land and buildings are all rented from the same landholder
• your livestock will not mix with livestock kept by someone else on that land or in buildings
• the land and buildings are not in more than one TLACPH
• all orthe land and buildings you want to cover with the tCPH. They lastare forwithin up10 tomiles oneof yearthe andplace you’ll gather livestock on the temporary holding

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permanent CPH number

CompleteYou themust applyalso register with APHA to get a flock or herd mark before applying for a temporarytCPH.

Apply landfor associationa TLA or tCPH ornumber

Complete the application to register temporary countyuse parishof holdingland numberto keep livestock form.

Post or email it to APHA.

When you get your TLA or tCPH

APHA aims to process applications within 10 working days. It may take longer if:

• your application is inaccurate
• the form is incomplete
• they need to carry out an assessment, for example a bovine TB veterinary risk assessment

If you have a 7000 series (landless keeper) CPH number

You must register with APHA to get a flock or herd mark.

Renew your TLA or tCPH number

A TLA and a tCPH last number last up to one year. If youyou’re wantplanning to renewuse it,the you’llland needor tobuildings dofor solonger, you must renew it before it expires.ends. You mustneed to either:

• complete and return the renewal letter form you’llby getemail fromor APHA post
• call APHA one month before the expiry date

You can call APHA to reactivate a TLA that has expired as long as the land, buildings and landowner have not changed. You cannot reactivate an expired tCPH number.

Update your TLA or tCPH number details

You must tell APHA when:

• there are any changes to the information you gave in your application
• you stop using any of the land or buildings to keep livestock

Call or email APHA. If you email, use ‘TLA update’ or ‘tCPH update’, whichever is applicable, as the subject in your email.