{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-poultry-order-1994/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-poultry-order-1994/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3141",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Poultry Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-poultry-order-1994",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notification procedures and precautions to be taken where the presence of disease is suspected",
  "text": "(1) A person who has in his possession or under his charge, or who examines or inspects, any poultry or carcase having, or suspected of having, a disease shall immediately inform the Divisional Veterinary Officer.\n(2) A person who, following analysis by him of a sample taken from any poultry or carcase, reasonably suspects the presence of a disease in the sample shall immediately inform the Divisional Veterinary Officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health Orders (Divisional Veterinary Manager Amendment) Order 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3141/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:09.654164+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."
}