{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-poultry-transport-order-1988/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-poultry-transport-order-1988/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/851",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Poultry (Transport) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-poultry-transport-order-1988",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;\n“airport” means any place in Great Britain at which poultry are loaded into or unloaded out of an aircraft or at which an aircraft lands while carrying poultry;\n“appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;\n“commander” means the member of the flight crew designated as commander of an aircraft by the operator thereof, or, failing such designation, the person who is for the time being the pilot in command of the aircraft;\n“chicks” means poultry aged 72 hours or less;\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 a person appointed by the Minister, includes a veterinary inspector;\n“journey” means a journey undertaken by any poultry in Great Britain or, where part of a journey is undertaken outside Great Britain, as much of the journey as is undertaken in Great Britain;\n“master” includes any person having charge or command of a vessel, other than a pilot;\n“the Minister” and the “the Ministry” means respectively the Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“port” means any place in Great Britain at which poultry are loaded into or unloaded out of a vessel or at which a vessel calls while carrying poultry;\n“poultry” means live birds of the following species, that is to say, domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea-fowls, pheasants, partridges and quails;\n“receptacle” means a crate, box or other container used for the carriage of poultry which is not self-propelled and includes a crate, box or other container which forms part of a vessel, aircraft or vehicle;\n“unfit” includes infirm, diseased, ill, injured and fatigued;\n“vehicle” means—\n(a) in relation to the carriage of poultry by road, any vehicle (including a trailer of any description and the detachable body of a vehicle) constructed or adapted for use on a road, whether drawn or propelled by animal or mechanical power; and\n(b) in relation to the carriage of poultry by rail, rolling stock of any description;\n“veterinary inspector” means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Minister.\n“vessel” includes a hovercraft and any means by which poultry are transported by water;\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, a journey undertaken by any poultry shall begin when a bird, or, where two or more birds are being transported together, the first of those birds, is loaded into a receptacle or vehicle (whichever is the earlier) and shall end when the bird or, as the case may be, the last bird, has been unloaded from the vehicle or receptacle (whichever is the later) at its final destination.\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/1988/851/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:50.833288+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."
}