{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-salmonella-in-poultry-order-2007/schedule/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-salmonella-in-poultry-order-2007/schedule/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Sampling of four-week-old birds etc.",
  "text": "(1) An occupier must use the methods set out in this paragraph when sampling—\n(a) in the case of breeding flocks, four-week-old birds; and\n(b) in the case of both breeding flocks and laying flocks, birds two weeks before the date they are moved to a laying unit or (if they are not moved) the date they are expected to come into lay.\n(2) The sample must consist of—\n(a) a minimum of two pairs of boot swabs; or\n(b) a composite faeces sample.\n(3) In this paragraph, “a composite faeces sample” means a sample of faeces consisting of at least sixty samples each of which weighs not less than 1 gram and each of which is taken from a site selected at random to represent the flock from which it is taken.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}