The Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (England) Order 2006

Slaughter of poultry E+W+S

3.—(1) The occupier of a slaughterhouse to which poultry are moved in accordance with paragraph 1(2)(a) or 1(2)(c) must ensure that the poultry are slaughtered without delay.

(2) The occupier of a slaughterhouse which produces—

(a) fresh meat from poultry referred to in paragraph 9(2)(c) which requires a licence for transport out of the wild bird control area to other parts of the United Kingdom under paragraph 9(1); or

(b) fresh meat from such poultry for processing into processed fresh meat requiring such a licence or for incorporation into meat products requiring such a licence,

must ensure that the conditions in paragraph (3) are fulfilled.

(3) The conditions are—

(a) poultry from premises in a wild bird control area must be kept separate from poultry from outside the wild bird control area;

(b) the poultry from within the area must be slaughtered separately or at different times from poultry from outside the area; and

(c) the part of the slaughterhouse, any equipment and any other thing which has been used for the slaughter or subsequent processing of poultry from within the area must be cleansed and disinfected in accordance with a veterinary inspector’s instructions before poultry from outside the wild bird control area are slaughtered in that part of the slaughterhouse, using that equipment or other thing.