The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (Registration and Testing) Order 1989

Registration of hatcheries

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (9) below, no person shall use any premises as a hatchery unless 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 entitled to use 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 paragraphs (4) and (5) 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) The appropriate Minister shall refuse to enter the name of any person in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises unless all particulars specified in Part II of Schedule 1 are notified to him in writing.

(5) The appropriate Minister shall refuse to enter the name of any person in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises if, as a result of an inspection carried out on the premises by an inspector of the Minister, he is satisfied that any of the requirements specified in Part II of Schedule 2, in so far as it relates to the location or to the construction or adaption of premises which are used as a hatchery, is not being complied with or will not be complied with by the date on which registration could otherwise have been effected.

(6) The Registration of the name of a person in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises shall remain in force for a period of one year.

(7) A person who wishes to renew the registration of his name in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises for a further period of one year from the date of its expiry shall make an application in writing to the appropriate Minister before such date.

(8) On receipt of an application for the renewal of the name of a person in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises the appropriate Minister shall renew such registration for a further period of one year from the date of its expiry unless, as a result of an inspection carried out on the premises by an inspector of the Minister, he is satisfied that the applicant has failed to comply with any of the requirements specified in Part II of Schedule 2 relating to the use of those premises as a hatchery.

(9) The provisions of paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of any premises used solely for the incubation or hatching of eggs from which chicks are sold or supplied for use in the manufacture of vaccines or for research or other scientific purposes.