{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-salmonella-in-poultry-order-2007/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-salmonella-in-poultry-order-2007/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3574",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Salmonella in Poultry Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-salmonella-in-poultry-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Laying flocks: sampling times",
  "text": "The occupier must take samples from each laying flock on the holding—\n(a) when the birds are chicks;\n(b) two weeks before the date the flock is moved to a laying unit or (if they are not moved) the date they are expected to come into lay; and\n(c) every 15 weeks during the laying period, starting when the birds are between 22 and 26 weeks old.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3574/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:38:29.141005+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."
}