{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-registration-and-testing-order-1989/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-registration-and-testing-order-1989/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1963",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (Registration and Testing) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-registration-and-testing-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Registration of breeding flocks",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (9) below, no person shall keep a breeding flock on any premises unless his name is entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of the premises on which the flock is kept.\n(2) The appropriate Minister shall keep, for the purpose of paragraph (1) above, a register of persons as being persons entitled to keep a breeding flock on premises in respect of which their names are entered in the register.\n(3) Where a person makes an application in writing to the appropriate Minister for his name to be entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises the appropriate Minister shall, subject to paragraphs (4) and (5) below, enter his name in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of those premises and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration.\n(4) The appropriate Minister shall refuse to enter the name of any person in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises unless all the particulars specified in Part I of Schedule 1 are notified to him in writing.\n(5) The appropriate Minister shall refuse to enter the name of any person in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises if, as a result of an inspection carried out on the premises by an inspector of the Minister, he is satisfied that any of the requirements specified in Part I of Schedule 2, in so far as it relates to the location or to the construction or adaption of premises on which a breeding flock is kept, is not being complied with or will not be able to be complied with by the date on which registration would otherwise have been effected.\n(6) The registration of the name of a person in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises shall remain in force for a period of one year.\n(7) A person who wishes to renew the registration of his name in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises for a further period of one year from the date of its expiry shall make an application in writing to the appropriate Minister before such date.\n(8) On receipt of an application for the renewal of the registration of the name of a person in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises the appropriate Minister shall renew such registration for a further period of one year from the date of its expiry unless, as a result of an inspection carried out on the premises by an inspector of the Minister, he is satisfied that the applicant has failed to comply with any of the requirements specified in Part I of Schedule 2 relating to the keeping of a breeding flock on those premises.\n(9) The provisions of paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of a breeding flock consisting of birds which are kept solely for the production of hatching eggs or chicks for use (in either case) 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/1989/1963/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:48.697296+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."
}