{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-registration-and-testing-order-1989/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-registration-and-testing-order-1989/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Taking of samples from hatcheries for bacteriological testing for salmonella",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of a person whose name is entered in the Hatcheries Register in respect of any premises used by him as a hatchery to ensure that–\n(a) samples are taken from the hatchery in such manner as is specified in Part II of Schedule 3 and at such times as are so specified;\n(b) such samples are identified in such a manner as to enable the laboratory to which they are submitted to know what type of samples they are, the name of the person entered in the Hatcheries Register in respect of the premises on which they were taken, the address of those premises and the address of the premises from which the hatching eggs from which the samples were obtained were supplied to the hatchery;\n(c) such samples (other than those required to be taken under the supervision of an officer of the Minister) are dispatched, within 48 hours of being taken, to a laboratory for testing (at his expense) for the presence of salmonella in accordance with an appopriate bacteriological method set out in Part III of that Schedule; and\n(d) in the case of samples required to be taken under the supervision of an officer of the Minister, they are given to him after being so taken for testing by the Minister for salmonella in accordance with such a bacteriological method.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}