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Article 6 Powers of veterinary inspector in relation to disease

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(1)

Where a veterinary inspector suspects that poultry or eggs—

(a)

which have been landed in Great Britain, or

(b)

which may have been in contact with poultry or eggs so landed,

are or may be affected with disease, he may require the owner or the person in charge thereof to submit—

(i)

such poultry or eggs or a sample thereof, or

(ii)

any litter, droppings, other excreta or any other material or thing which may have been in contact with such poultry or eggs,

to such diagnostic or other tests as he may specify.

(2)

Without prejudice to paragraph (4) of this article, a veterinary inspector may serve on the owner or the person in charge of the poultry or eggs to which paragraph (1) of this article applies, a notice in writing requiring him, at the owner's expense and within such time as he may specify in the notice—

(a)

in the case of poultry or eggs which have been landed in Great Britain—

(i)

to export such poultry or eggs from Great Britain, or

(ii)

to slaughter such poultry or destroy such eggs; or

(b)

in any other case—

(i)

to place such poultry or eggs in quarantine for such period and at such premises as he shall, and subject to such conditions as he may, specify in the notice, or

(ii)

to slaughter such poultry or destroy such eggs.

(3)

Where the owner or the person in charge of the poultry or eggs fails to comply—

(a)

with a requirement under paragraph (1) above, or

(b)

with the requirements of a notice served under paragraph (2) above,

a veterinary inspector may, without prejudice to any proceedings for an offence arising out of such failure, seize the poultry or eggs to which the requirement or the notice relates and carry out or cause to be carried out—

(i)

any tests specified in the requirement, or

(ii)

the requirements of the notice.

(4)

A veterinary inspector may at any time seize or cause to be seized, and may thereafter slaughter or cause to be slaughtered or, as the case may be destroy or cause to be destroyed any poultry or eggs to which paragraph (1) above applies.