{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-h5n1-in-wild-birds-england-order-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-h5n1-in-wild-birds-england-order-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3249",
  "legislation_title": "The Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-h5n1-in-wild-birds-england-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Prohibition on the movement of poultry or other captive birds from premises in a wild bird control area",
  "text": "(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.\n(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—\n(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;\n(b) ready-to-lay pullets or turkeys for fattening to premises in the United Kingdom;\n(c) poultry to a designated slaughterhouse for slaughter;\n(d) day-old chicks hatched from eggs collected from premises within the wild bird control area to premises in the United Kingdom;\n(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;\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3249/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:56.316011+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}