Article 9 Registration of laying flocks

Subject to paragraph (7) below, no person shall keep a laying flock on any premises unless his name is entered in the Laying Flocks Register in respect of the premises on which the flock is kept.

The appropriate Minister shall keep, for the purposes of paragraph (1) above, a register of persons as being persons entitled to keep a laying flock on premises in respect of which their names are entered in the register.

Where a person makes an application in writing to the appropriate Minister for his name to be entered in the Laying Flocks Register in respect of any premises on which a laying flock is to be kept by him the appropriate Minister shall, subject to paragraph (4) below, enter his name in the Laying Flocks Register in respect of those premises and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration.

The appropriate Minister shall refuse to enter in the Laying Flocks Register the name of any person in respect of any premises unless all the particulars specified in Schedule 4 are notified to him in writing.

A person whose name is entered in the Laying Flocks Register in respect of any premises shall, within 28 days of each anniversary of the date of such registration, notify the appropriate Minister in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him.

The registration of the name of a person in the Laying Flocks Register in respect of any premises shall remain in force for an unlimited period, except that, where a person so registered has notified the appropriate Minister in accordance with paragraph (5) above of a change in the particulars previously notified to him and that change consists of a reduction in the number of birds kept by him on the premises for the production of eggs for human consumption (excluding birds being reared for that purpose) to less than 100, the appropriate Minister shall revoke such registration unless that person informs the appropriate Minister in writing, within 28 days of the anniversary of the date of such registration, that he anticipates that the number of such birds which will be kept by him on the premises will increase to 100 or more during the 12 months following the anniversary of such registration.

The provisions of paragraph (1) above shall not apply where the name of the person keeping the laying flock is entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of the premises on which the flock is kept, such register being kept by the appropriate Minister under article 3(2) of the Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (Registration and Testing) Order 1989^f1.