Prohibition on the movement of poultry and other captive birds from a wild bird monitoring areaE+W+S
1.—(1) No person may move poultry or other captive birds from premises in a wild bird monitoring area before 15 days have elapsed since the declaration of the area, except under the authority of a licence granted by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting under his direction.
(2) A veterinary inspector may not grant or direct the grant of a licence for a movement under paragraph (1) unless it is a movement of—
(a)poultry to a slaughterhouse within the wild bird monitoring area or the wild bird control area centred on the same outbreak point or to a designated slaughterhouse;
(b)poultry to any premises other than a slaughterhouse;
(c)day-old chicks hatched from eggs which were collected from premises within the wild bird monitoring area to premises in the United Kingdom;
(d)day-old chicks hatched from eggs which were collected from premises within the wild bird control area centred on the same outbreak point as that wild bird monitoring area to premises in the United Kingdom; or
(e)day-old chicks hatched from eggs which were collected from premises outside that wild bird monitoring area or the wild bird control area centred on the same outbreak point to any premises.
(3) A veterinary inspector may not grant or direct the grant of a licence for a movement referred to in sub-paragraph 2(e) unless he is satisfied that there was no contact, at the hatchery from which the day-old chicks are being moved, between the eggs from which the day old chicks were hatched and any other hatching eggs or day-old chicks originating from poultry within the wild bird control area or wild bird monitoring area.