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PART 4 Prohibition on use of specific control methods

Prohibition on the use of antimicrobials

13.  No person shall administer any antimicrobial to any bird in a breeding flock of domestic fowl of the species Gallus gallus as a specific method to control salmonella in breach of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1177/2006.

Prohibition on the use of vaccines

14.  No person shall administer any live salmonella vaccine to any bird in a breeding flock of domestic fowl of the species Gallus gallus in breach of Article 3(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1177/2006.

PART 5 Miscellaneous

Hatchery records

15.—(1) The occupier of a hatchery containing domestic fowl of the species Gallus gallus or their eggs shall keep a record of–

(a) the information in paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 in respect of the movement of any eggs of domestic fowl of the species Gallus gallus to and from the hatchery; and

(b) the information in paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 in respect of the movement of any chicks of domestic fowl of the species Gallus gallus from the hatchery.

(2) The occupier shall keep the record for two years from the date of the movement.

Production of records

16.  Any person required to keep a record under this Order shall produce it to an inspector or officer of the Scottish Ministers on demand at any reasonable time and allow a copy of it to be made or an extract from it to be taken.

Tampering with samples

17.  No person shall tamper with or wrongfully interfere with a sample for the purpose of affecting the result of any test required to be carried out under this Order.

Powers of Scottish Ministers in cases of default

18.  If any person fails to take any action required to be taken under this Order, an inspector may, without prejudice to any proceedings arising out of such default, take, or cause to be taken, such action and the amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by the inspector in doing so are recoverable by the Scottish Ministers from the person in default.

Enforcement

19.—(1) The local authority shall be responsible for enforcing this Order.

(2) The Scottish Ministers may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or a particular case, that any duty imposed on a local authority under paragraph (1) shall be discharged by the Scottish Ministers and not by the local authority.

Revocation

20.  The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Order 1993 is revoked in relation to Scotland.

Articles 3 and 4

SCHEDULE 1 Hatchery and breeding flock information

Information relating to hatcheries

1.  The information to be notified is–

(a) the name, address and telephone number of the occupier;

(b) the address and telephone number of the hatchery;

(c) the incubator capacity of the hatchery; and

(d) the species of poultry hatched at the hatchery.

Information relating to breeding flocks

2.  The information to be notified is–

(a) the name, address and telephone number of the occupier and the owner of each breeding flock on the holding;

(b) the address and telephone number of the holding;

(c) the number of breeding flocks on the holding;

(d) the identification of each breeding flock on the holding;

(e) the species in each breeding flock on the holding;

(f) the number of poultry in each breeding flock on the holding;

(g) whether the poultry in each breeding flock on the holding are layer breeders or meat breeders; and

(h) the status of each breeding flock on the holding in the breeding pyramid.

Article 8

SCHEDULE 2 Sampling of breeding flocks

Sampling of chicks

1.—(1) The following samples are to be taken when the birds are chicks–

(a) 1 chick box liner, up to a maximum of 10, for every 500 chicks delivered from the hatchery; and

(b) the carcases of all chicks, up to a maximum of 60 from each hatchery, that are dead on arrival at the holding.

(2) In this paragraph “chick box liner” means any material used to line a box or other container in which chicks are transported from the hatchery to the holding.

Sampling of four-week-old birds etc.

2.—(1) The following samples are to be taken from each flock of four week-old birds and each flock two weeks before it comes into lay or moves to the laying phase or laying unit–

(a) a minimum of two pairs of boot swabs; or

(b) a composite faeces sample.

(2) In this paragraph, “a composite faeces sample” means a sample of faeces consisting of a number of individual samples calculated in accordance with the following, 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 in the holding from which it is taken.

Table

The number of sites from which separate faeces samples are to be taken in order to make a composite sample are as follows–