Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Order 1993
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1993/1898 |
| Year | 1993 |
1993No. 1898
ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Order 1993
23rdJuly1993
30thAugust1993
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 7 and 8 of the Animal Health Act 1981( a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Order 1993 and shall come into force on 30th August 1993.
Interpretation
2.-(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires-
"the Act" means the Animal Health Act 1981;
"breeding flock" means any flock of poultry consisting of at least 250 birds of a single species which are kept or reared on a single holding or the production of hatching eggs;
"the Breeding Flocks Register" means the register kept by the appropriate Minister under article 3(2);
"building" includes a shed and a part of a building separated from other parts of that building by a solid partition and having its own ventilation system;
"chicks" means poultry less than 72 hours old which have not been fed;
"chick box liner" means any material used to line a box or other container in which chicks are transported from a hatchery to any rearing premises;
"composite faeces sample" means a sample of faeces consisting of a number of individual samples of faeces calculated in accordance with the appropriate provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 each of which weighs not less than 1 gram and is taken from a site selected at random to represent the building or group of buildings on the holding from which it is taken;
"domestic fowl" means birds of the species Gallus gallus;
"the Hatcheries Register" means the register kept by the appropriate Minister under article 4(2);
"hatchery" means any premises, with a total incubator capacity of not less than 1,000 eggs, on which the eggs of poultry are incubated or hatched and from which chicks are sold or supplied;
"hatching eggs" means eggs intended for incubation;
(a) 1981 c.22; as applied by S.I. 1989/285; section 86(1)(c) contains a definition of "the Ministers".
"laboratory" means any laboratory authorised in writing by the Minister for the purposes of this Order which has the necessary facilities and personnel for carrying out tests on samples mentioned in Parts I and II of Schedule 2 in accordance with the provisions of Part III of that Schedule;
"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
"poultry" means domestic fowls, turkeys, geese or ducks;
"premises" includes land;
"rearing premises" means any holding on which chicks are placed for rearing as replacement breeding stock.
(2) Any reference in this Order to a numbered article or Schedule is a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order.
(3) The provisions of this Order shall not apply in the case of a breeding flock or hatchery which is kept solely for the production of hatching eggs for use in the manufacture of vaccines or for research or other scientific purposes.
Registration of breeding flocks
3.-(1) Within 3 months of this Order coming into force, any person owning a breeding flock shall procure that his name is entered in the Breeding Flocks Register.
(2) The appropriate Minister shall keep, for the purpose of paragraph (1) above, a register of persons as being persons owning a breeding flock on a holding in respect of which their names are entered in the register.
(3) Where a person makes an application in writing to the appropriate Minister for his name to be entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any holding the appropriate Minister shall, subject to paragraph (4) below, enter his name in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of that holding and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration.
(4) A person making an application under paragraph (3) above shall supply to the appropriate Minister in his application all the particulars specified in Part I of Schedule 1.
(5) A person whose name is entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any holding shall, within 28 days of each anniversary of the date of such registration, notify the appropriate Minister in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him.
(6) The registration of the name of a person in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any holding shall remain in force for an unlimited period, except that, where a person so registered has notified the appropriate Minister in accordance with paragraph (5) above of a change in the particulars previously notified and that change consists of a reduction in the number of birds kept in the breeding flock to less than 250, the appropriate Minister shall revoke such registration unless that person informs the appropriate Minister in writing, within 28 days of the anniversary of the date of such registration, that he anticipates that the number of such birds which will be kept by him on the holding will increase to 250 or more during the 12 months following the anniversary of such registration.
Registration of hatcheries
4.-(1) Within 3 months of this Order coming into force, any person using any premises as a hatchery shall procure that his name is entered in the Hatcheries Register in respect of those premises.
(2) The appropriate Minister shall keep, for the purpose of paragraph (1) above, a register of persons as being persons using as a hatchery any premises in respect of which their names are entered in the register.
(3) Where a person makes an application in writing to the appropriate Minister for his name to be entered in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises the appropriate Minister shall, subject to paragraph (4) below, enter his name in the Hatcheries Register in respect of those premises and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration.
(4) A person making an application under paragraph (3) above shall supply to the appropriate Minister in his application all the particulars specified in Part II of Schedule 1.
(5) A person whose name is entered in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises shall, within 28 days of each anniversary of the date of such registration, notify the appropriate Minister in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him.
(6) The registration of the name of a person in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises shall remain in force for an unlimited period, except that, where a person so registered has notified the appropriate Minister in accordance with paragraph (5) above of a change in the particulars previously notified and that change consists of a reduction in the total incubator capacity of the premises to less than 1,000 eggs, the appropriate Minister shall revoke such registration unless that person informs the appropriate Minister in writing, within 28 days of the anniversary of the date of such registration, that he anticipates that the total incubator capacity of the premises will increase to 1,000 eggs or more during the 12 months following the anniversary of such registration.
Taking of samples from breeding flocks of domestic fowl for bacteriological testing for salmonella
5. It shall be the duty of a person in respect of any holding of his on which a breeding flock of domestic fowl is kept and of the person in charge of any such holding to ensure that-
(a) samples are taken in respect of the flock in such manner as is specified in Part I of Schedule 2 and at such times as are so specified;(b) such samples are identified in such a manner as to enable the laboratory to which they are submitted to know what type of samples they are,...To continue reading
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