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PART 4 Miscellaneous

Hatchery records

16.—(1) The occupier of a hatchery with a total incubator capacity of 1000 eggs or more and containing domestic fowl of the species Gallus gallus or their eggs must keep a record of—

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

(2) He or she must keep the record for two years from the date of the movement.

Production of records

17.  Any person required to keep a record under this Order must produce it to an inspector or officer of the Welsh 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

18.  A person must not tamper with a sample or do anything to it that is likely to affect the result of any test required to be carried out under this Order, except as provided for in this Order.

Powers of Welsh Ministers in cases of default

19.  If any person fails to take any action under this Order, an inspector may take, or cause to be taken, such action and his or her expenses reasonably incurred are recoverable by the Welsh Ministers from the person in default.

Enforcement

20.—(1) This Order is to be enforced by the local authority.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or any particular case, that it will enforce this Order instead of the local authority.

Revocation

21.  The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Order 1993(4) is revoked in relation to Wales.

Articles 4 and 5

SCHEDULE 1 Hatchery and breeding flock information

Information in relation 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 in relation to breeding flocks

2.  The information to be notified is—

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

(b) the name, address and telephone number of the occupier and of the person who owns each breeding flock on 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 9(2)

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” (“leinin blychau cywion”) 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” (“sampl gyfansawdd o ysgarthion”) means a sample of faeces consisting of a number of individual samples calculated in accordance with the following Table, 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.

Table

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