# The Avian Influenza (Wales) (Amendment and Revocation) Order 2022, Article 12: Amendments to article 47 (killing of poultry and other captive birds)


In article 47—
(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—
“(1) The Welsh Ministers must ensure that all poultry and other captive birds of the species in which low pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed on the holding are killed or slaughtered under official supervision in such a way as to prevent the spread of avian influenza.”;
(b) in paragraph (2), after “The occupier of a” insert “designated”;
(c) in paragraph (3), after “movement of birds to a” insert “designated”;
(d) for paragraph (4) substitute—
“(4) The Welsh Ministers may require other captive birds on the premises to be killed or slaughtered on the basis of an assessment of the risk that they pose as regards the spread of avian influenza to birds on other premises that are determined on the basis of epidemiological inquiry to be contact premises.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/280/article/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-wales-amendment-and-revocation-order-2022/article-12
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