PART V MISCELLANEOUS

Records

18.  Any person required to keep a record under this Scheme must keep it for two years from the date it is made and must produce it to an inspector or officer of the Department on demand and allow a copy of it to be made or an extract from it to be taken.

Tampering with samples

19.  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 Scheme, except as provided for in this Scheme.

Powers of the Department in cases of default

20.  If a person fails to take any action required by this Scheme, an inspector may arrange for such action to be taken at the expense of the person in default.

Revocation

21.  The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007(6) is revoked.

Paragraphs 4(1)and 6(1)

ANNEX 1

Information in relation to poultry 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 or laying 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 flocks on the holding;

(d) for each flock—

(i) the identification of the flock;

(ii) whether it is a breeding flock or a laying flock;

(iii) the species;

(iv) the number of poultry;

(e) for each breeding flock—

(i) whether the flock is a flock of layer breeders or meat breeders; and

(ii) the status in the breeding pyramid of the flock.

Paragraphs 10 and 11

ANNEX 2

Method of sampling chicks

1.—(1) An occupier who samples chicks under this Schedule must take—

(a) 1 chick box liner, or hatcher tray liner, for every 500 chicks delivered from each hatchery, up to a maximum of 10; 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—

(a) “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

(b) “hatcher tray liner” means any material used to line a box, tray or other container in which eggs are incubated or hatched.

Sampling of four-week-old birds etc.

2.—(1) An occupier must use the methods set out in this paragraph when sampling—

(a) in the case of breeding flocks, four-week-old birds; and

(b) in the case of both breeding flocks and laying flocks, birds two weeks before the date they are moved to a laying unit or (if they are not moved) the date they are expected to come into lay.

(2) The sample must consist of—

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

(b) a composite faeces sample.

(3) In this paragraph, “a composite faeces sample” means a sample of faeces consisting of at least sixty samples each of which weighs not less than 1 gram and each of which is taken from a site selected at random to represent the flock from which it is taken.

Method of sampling during the laying period

3.  Samples taken during the laying period must be taken in accordance with point 2.2.2.1 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1003/2005 (in the case of breeding flocks) or point 2.2 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1168/2006 (in the case of laying flocks).

Paragraphs 5, 13 and 14

ANNEX 3

Samples

1.  The information to be recorded is—

(a) the type of sample taken;

(b) the date on which the sample was taken;

(c) the identification of the flock from which the sample was taken;

(d) the age of the flock sampled;

(e) the laboratory to which the sample was sent;

(f) the result of each test when it is received from the laboratory.

Movements

2.  The information to be recorded is—

(a) the date of the movement;

(b) whether the movement was on to or off the holding;

(c) the number of birds or eggs moved;

(d) the age of the birds moved;

(e) in the case of the movement of an entire flock, the identification of that flock;

(f) the identity of the building or group of buildings in to or from which the birds or eggs were moved;

(g) the address of the holding that they came from or were sent to.

Movements in a hatchery incubating Gallus gallus

3.  The information to be recorded is—

(a) the date of the movement;

(b) the number of eggs or chicks moved;

(c) whether the movement is on to or off the hatchery;

(d) if the movement is off the hatchery, the holding of destination; and

(e) in the case of eggs brought on to the hatchery for incubation, the holding of origin.