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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1702",
  "legislation_title": "The Importation of Birds, Poultry and Hatching Eggs Order 1979",
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  "heading": "Detention of poultry and eggs in quarantine",
  "text": "(1) Poultry and eggs landed in Great Britain shall, except where the licence otherwise provides, be detained in quarantine, at the owner's expense, for such period and at such premises as shall, and subject to such conditions as may, be specified in the licence.\n(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) above, a veterinary inspector may, for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spreading of disease into or within Great Britain, by notice in writing served on the owner or the person in charge of poultry or eggs landed in Great Britain require such poultry or eggs to be detained in quarantine, at the owner's expense, for such period, or (where the poultry or eggs are being detained in quarantine at the time when the notice is served) for such further period, as shall be specified in the notice, and subject to such conditions as may be so specified, and where the poultry or eggs in respect of which the notice is served were excepted from the requirement contained in paragraph (1) above, the notice shall specify the premises at which the poultry or eggs are to be so detained.\n(3) It shall be the duty of the person for the time being in charge of the poultry or eggs required to be detained under this article to ensure that, until such time as they arrive at the premises at which they are to be detained, they are kept separate from poultry or eggs which do not form part of the same consignment.\n(4) No person shall remove or attempt to remove, or cause or permit the removal or attempted removal of, any poultry or eggs which are being detained under this article from the premises at which they are being so detained, except with the written authority of a veterinary inspector and in accordance with any conditions subject to which that authority is given.\n(5) The prohibition in paragraph (4) above extends to the removal or attempted removal of carcases of poultry or parts of eggs referred to in that paragraph.",
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