{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1898",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;\n“breeding flock” means any flock of poultry consisting of at least 250 birds of a single species which are kept or reared on a single holding or the production of hatching eggs;\n“the Breeding Flocks Register” means the register kept by the appropriate Minister under article 3(2);\n“building” includes a shed and a part of a building separated from other parts of that building by a solid partition and having its own ventilation system;\n“chicks” means poultry less than 72 hours old which have not been fed;\n“chick box liner” means any material used to line a box or other container in which chicks are transported from a hatchery to any rearing premises;\n“composite faeces sample” means a sample of faeces consisting of a number of individual samples of faeces calculated in accordance with the appropriate provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 each of which weighs not less than 1 gram and is taken from a site selected at random to represent the building or group of buildings on the holding from which it is taken;\n“domestic fowl” means birds of the species Gallus gallus;“the Hatcheries Register” means the register kept by the appropriate Minister under article 4(2);\n“hatchery” means any premises, with a total incubator capacity of not less than 1,000 eggs, on which the eggs of poultry are incubated or hatched and from which chicks are sold or supplied;\n“hatching eggs” means eggs intended for incubation;\n“laboratory” means any laboratory authorised in writing by the Minister for the purposes of this Order which has the necessary facilities and personnel for carrying out tests on samples mentioned in Parts I and II of Schedule 2 in accordance with the provisions of Part III of that Schedule;\n“the Ministry” means the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, geese or ducks;\n“premises” includes land;\n“rearing premises” means any holding on which chicks are placed for rearing as replacement breeding stock.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to a numbered article or Schedule is a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order.\n(3) The provisions of this Order shall not apply in the case of a breeding flock or hatchery which is kept solely for the production of hatching eggs for use in the manufacture of vaccines or for research or other scientific purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1898/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:49.536988+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."
}