{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-england-order-2007/article-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (England) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-england-order-2007",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Duties of an approved laboratory",
  "text": "(1) The person in charge of an approved laboratory must ensure that the examination of samples submitted to it under article 10 begins within 48 hours of receipt of those samples.\n(2) He must ensure that—\n(a) the samples are prepared as follows—\n(i) chick box liners must be prepared in accordance with Schedule 4 to this Order;\n(ii) boot swabs’ samples must be prepared in accordance with point 3.1.2 of the Annex to the Commission Regulation; and\n(iii) any other samples of faeces must be prepared in accordance with point 3.1.3 of that Annex;\n(b) the samples are tested for salmonella in accordance with the method in point 3.2 of that Annex; and\n(c) the result of any test on any sample is reported in writing as soon as practicable to the occupier who submitted it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/405/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:04:53.482996+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."
}