Paragraph 1 F1F2

In this Schedule–

• “bird” means any domestic fowl, turkey, pheasant, quail, partridge, goose, duck or guinea fowl;

• “bird shed” means a building designed and constructed to house birds that has been sealed so as to be capable of containing the gas mixture specified in combination 1 in the table in Part V;

• “breeder hen” means a domestic fowl which has reached laying maturity and is kept for production of eggs intended for hatching;

• “chamber” means a bird shed or gas container in which birds are killed by exposure to a gas mixture;

• “end of lay hen” means a laying hen no longer required for the production of eggs;

• “end of life breeder hen” means a breeder hen no longer required for the production of hatching eggs;

• “gas container” means a receptacle capable of containing the gas mixtures specified in combinations 2 or 3 in the table in Part V which meets the requirements specified in paragraph 5;

• “gas mixture” means any of the mixtures of gases specified in the second column of the table in Part V; and

• “laying hen” means a domestic fowl which has reached laying maturity and is kept for production of eggs not intended for hatching.