Paragraph 4 Notification of stocking densityF1

A keeper must ensure that the Secretary of State is notified of the intended stocking density of each house where it is intended to keep chickens at a density in excess of 33 kilograms per m² of usable area, and of any subsequent change to that notified density.

Notification must be made in such manner and form as the Secretary of State may require.

Notification (including notification of any change) must be given at least 15 working days before stocking at that density or changed density takes place.

In this paragraph “working day” means a day other than a Saturday or a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971^f1.