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Poultry Act 1911

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 4 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1911 c. 11
Year1911


Poultry Act, 1911

(1 & 2 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 11.

An Act to enable Orders to be made under the Diseases of Animals Acts for protecting Live Poultry from unnecessary suffering, and for other purposes connected therewith.

[18th August 1911]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Power to make orders for protecting poultry from unnecessary suffering, &c.

1 Power to make orders for protecting poultry from unnecessary suffering, &c.

(1) The Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 , as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall have effect as if, among the purposes for which Orders may be made under section twenty-two of that Act, there were included the following purposes:—

(a ) for protecting live poultry from unnecessary suffering while being conveyed by land or water and in connexion with their exposure for sale and their disposal after sale;

(b ) for requiring the cleansing or disinfection of receptacles or vehicles used for the conveyance of live poultry,

and, for the purposes of an Order made under this Act, the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, shall be construed as if the expression ‘animals’ included live poultry.

(2) An inspector, for the purpose of enforcing an Order under this Act, may examine any live poultry under any circumstances to which the Order relates and any receptacle or vehicle used for their conveyance; and may enter any vessel or premises in which he has reasonable grounds for supposing that there are live poultry in course of conveyance or packed for conveyance.

(3) The expression ‘poultry’ includes domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea-fowls, and pigeons.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as thePoultry Act, 1911; and the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1909, and this Act may be cited together as the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1911.

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