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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1702",
  "legislation_title": "The Importation of Birds, Poultry and Hatching Eggs Order 1979",
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  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Action in case of contravention of the order, etc",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to paragraph (2) below, where—\n(a) poultry or eggs are landed in Great Britain in contravention of this order or of a licence, or\n(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,\nan 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—\n(i) to slaughter the poultry or destroy the eggs,\n(ii) to export the poultry or eggs from Great Britain, or\n(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,\nand 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.\n(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—\n(a) any poultry or eggs to which paragraph (1) above applies, and\n(b) any poultry or eggs which may have been in contact with any poultry or eggs to which that paragraph applies.",
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