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

2.  A registered person shall ensure that on the premises on which the breeding flock is kept–

(1) effective measures are taken so as to ensure that–

(a) poultry houses and buildings or parts of buildings used to store eggs are not infested by vermin; and

(b) poultry houses in which poultry are housed permanently throughout their rearing or laying periods are not accessible to any other birds at any time;

(2) domestic animals are not permitted access to poultry houses;

(3) footbaths containing an approved disinfectant are maintained outside each house and the disinfectant is renewed as necessary and, in any event, at least once every 7 days;

(4) no person enters a poultry house unless he is wearing disposable overall clothing and boots or overall clothing and boots which are capable of being cleansed and disinfected or overall clothing which is capable of being laundered and boots which are capable of being cleansed and disinfected;

(5) no person leaves a poultry house without immediately cleansing and disinfecting his boots and washing his hands;

(6) after a poultry house has been depopulated of poultry all manure is removed from it and the house is cleansed and disinfected with an approved disinfectant;

(7) eggs are collected from the flock at least twice a day or, in the case of a flock consisting of ducks or geese, at least once a day;

(8) all broken, leaking, dirty and dented eggs are collected in separate containers from other eggs;

(9) no broken, leaking, dirty or dented eggs are incubated;

(10) all eggs intended for incubation are sanitised;

(11) all eggs which have been sanitised are stored in clean, dust-free rooms to which poultry are not permitted access and which are used exclusively for this purpose and kept at a temperature of 13°–15°C (55°–60°F) and at a relative humidity of 70–80%; and

(12) all equipment used for catching or transporting poultry is cleansed and disinfected with an approved disinfectant before each occasion on which it is used.