Poultry Feedingstuffs Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order revokes and replaces the Poultry Feedingstuffs Order (Northern Ireland) 1991 (“the 1991 Order”). The 1991 Order prohibited the sale and supply for feeding to poultry of feedingstuffs and the feeding to poultry of such feedingstuffs unless the feedingstuffs were first heat treated. This prohibition is now omitted. As a consequence, provision on separation of heat treated feedingstuffs from such feedingstuffs and their ingredients also no longer apply. Instead this Order imposes requirements as to the storage and transport of feedingstuffs and ingredients to ensure, in particular, that access thereto by vermin is prevented. The Order also imposes certain record keeping requirements on those who are involved in the manufacture, sale, supply, collection, holding, use or removal of manufactured poultry feedingstuffs or their ingredients.

Any person who without lawful authority or excuse, proof of which shall lie on him, contravenes any provision of the Order shall be guilty of an offence against the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981. The penalty, on summary conviction, is in the case of an offence committed in relation to carcases or other inanimate things a fine at level 5 on the standard scale (currently £5,000) together with a further fine at level 3 on the standard scale (currently £1,000) in respect of every 508 kilogrammes in weight of the carcases or other things after the first 508 kilogrammes.