{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-improvement-act-northern-ireland-1968/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "apni/1968/12",
  "legislation_title": "Poultry Improvement Act (Northern Ireland) 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-improvement-act-northern-ireland-1968",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Ministry may refuse to issue a licence—\n(a)to an applicant who in his application gives information which is false or incomplete in a material particular; or\n(b)to an applicant who formerly held a licence and whose licence has been revoked or renewal of whose licence has been refused; or\n(c)if the premises with respect to which the application is made are wholly or partly the same as those used for purposes in connection with which a licence previously held by another person has been revoked or refused to be renewed and the Ministry is not satisfied that the business in connection with which the licence is applied for is not carried on or to be carried on wholly or partly for the benefit of that other person; or\n(d)if the Ministry is not satisfied—\n(i)that the premises with respect to which application for the licence is made and the plant, equipment and utensils to be used in or in connection with the premises comply with the prescribed standards; and\n(ii)that the standard of husbandry practised or likely to be practised in the premises is adequate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1968/12/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:14.819136+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."
}