Article 7 Action in case of contravention of the order, etc

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2005 reg. 34 Sch. 8
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2000 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import And Export) 1998 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2000 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 1993 reg. 33 Sch. 6
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 1995 reg. 33 Sch. 6
art. 4-7 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 1992 reg. 31 Sch. 7
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2004 reg. 34 Sch. 8
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2004 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2006 reg. 35(3) Sch. 9
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2005 reg. 34 Sch. 8
art. 5-7 excluded by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2007 reg. 37(3) Sch. 9

(1)

Without prejudice to paragraph (2) below, where—

(a)

poultry or eggs are landed in Great Britain in contravention of this order or of a licence, or

(b)

there is, in respect of poultry or eggs which have been landed in Great Britain any contravention of or failure to comply with any provision of this order or of a licence or of a notice or of an authority issued, served or given under this order,

an inspector may by notice in writing served on the owner or the person in charge of the poultry or eggs require him, at the owner's expense and within such time as he may specify in the notice—

(i)

to slaughter the poultry or destroy the eggs,

(ii)

to export the poultry or eggs from Great Britain, or

(iii)

to place the 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,

and where the owner or the person in charge of the poultry or eggs fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, a veterinary inspector may seize or cause to be seized the poultry or eggs to which the notice relates and carry out or cause to be carried out the requirements of the notice.

(2)

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—

(a)

any poultry or eggs to which paragraph (1) above applies, and

(b)

any poultry or eggs which may have been in contact with any poultry or eggs to which that paragraph applies.