The Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Measures on special category premises

22.—(1) The Department must not licence the movement of any bird which is not killed under paragraph 11 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1981 Order from infected premises which are special category premises unless it is satisfied, following tests on the bird, that it is not infectious.

(2) The Department must not licence a movement to another member State unless the movement is authorised by the competent authority of that member State.

(3) The following are special category premises—

(a) non-commercial premises;

(b) circuses;

(c) zoos;

(d) pet shops;

(e) wildlife parks;

(f) fenced areas where poultry or other captive birds are kept for scientific purposes or for purposes related to the conservation of endangered species;

(g) premises or parts of premises where only breeds of poultry or other captive birds which the Department considers to be rare are kept.