{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-5A/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-5A/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/3070",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/5A/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Identification of poor welfare conditions and follow-up",
  "text": "(1) An official veterinarian conducting controls under Regulation (EU) 2017/625 in relation to chickens must evaluate the results of the post-mortem inspection to identify possible indications of poor welfare conditions in their holding or house of origin.\n(2) If the mortality rate of the chickens or the results of the post-mortem inspection are consistent with poor animal welfare conditions, the official veterinarian must communicate the data to the keeper of those chickens and to the Welsh Ministers without delay.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5A inserted (10.11.2010) by The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2713), regs. 1, 8, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5A para. 15(1) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/44), regs. 1(2), 22(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/3070/schedule/5A/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:59:59.742388+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."
}