{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-laying-flocks-testing-and-registration-etc-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-laying-flocks-testing-and-registration-etc-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1964",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Laying Flocks (Testing and Registration etc.) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-laying-flocks-testing-and-registration-etc-order-1989",
  "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“appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;\n“authorised laboratory” means a laboratory authorised by the Minister in writing for the purposes of this Order;\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; “hatchery” means any premises on which the eggs of poultry are incubated or hatched and from which chicks are sold or supplied;\n“inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of the Act by the Minister or by a local authority and, when used in relation to an officer of the Minister, includes a veterinary inspector;\n“laboratory” means any laboratory which has the necessary facilities and personnel for carrying out tests on samples mentioned in Part I of Schedule 2 in accordance with the provisions of Part II of that Schedule; “laying flock” means, except for the purposes of article 9, any flock of poultry consisting of –\n(a) not less than 25 birds which are kept for the production of eggs for human consumption (including birds which are being reared for that purpose); or\n(b) less than 25 birds any of the eggs of which are sold for human consumption;\nand, for the purposes of article 9, “laying flock” means a flock of poultry consisting of not less than 100 birds which are kept for the production of eggs for human consumption (excluding birds which are being reared for that purpose);\n“the Laying Flocks Register” means the Register kept by the appropriate Minister under article 9(2);\n“the Minister” and “the Ministry” means respectively the Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“poultry” means domestic fowls of any age;\n“rearing premises” means any premises on which birds are being reared at any time for the production of eggs for human consumption;\n“registered person” means a person whose name is entered in the Laying Flocks Register in respect of any premises;\n“vermin” means rats, flies, mice or cockroaches;\n“veterinary inspector” means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Minister.\n(2) After 1st June 1990 any reference in this Order to a laboratory shall be a reference to an authorised laboratory.\n(3) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1964/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:47.807197+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."
}