The Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (England) Order 2006

Prohibition on the movement of poultry or other captive birds from premises in a wild bird control area

1.—(1) No person may move poultry or other captive birds from premises in a wild bird control area except under the authority of a licence granted by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting under his direction.

(2) A veterinary inspector may not grant or direct the grant of a licence for a movement under paragraph (1) unless it is for a movement of—

(a) poultry to any premises in the wild bird control area or the wild bird monitoring area centred on the same outbreak point, including an undesignated slaughterhouse;

(b) ready-to-lay pullets or turkeys for fattening to premises in the United Kingdom;

(c) poultry to a designated slaughterhouse for slaughter;

(d) day-old chicks hatched from eggs collected from premises within the wild bird control area to premises in the United Kingdom;

(e) day-old chicks hatched from eggs collected from premises within the wild bird monitoring area centred on the same outbreak point as that control area to premises in the United Kingdom;

(f) day-old chicks hatched from eggs collected from premises outside the wild bird control area or outside the wild bird monitoring area centred on the same outbreak point, to any premises.

(3) A veterinary inspector may not grant or direct the grant of a licence for a movement referred to in sub-paragraph 2(f) unless he is satisfied that there was no contact, at the hatchery from which the day-old chicks are being moved, between the eggs from which the day-old chicks were hatched and any other hatching eggs or day-old chicks originating from poultry within the wild bird control area or wild bird monitoring area.