Tracing of meat and eggs from infected premisesE+W
23.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the National Assembly or any person required by it, by notice, must endeavour to trace the following from infected premises—
(a)the meat of all poultry slaughtered during the unregulated period of infection;
(b)poultry eggs laid at the premises during that period; and
(c)poultry hatched from such eggs.
(2) The National Assembly need not trace or require the tracing of meat or poultry eggs once they have moved from wholesale or retail premises.
(3) “Unregulated period of infection” means the period from the date when, in the opinion of a veterinary inspector, avian influenza may first have been introduced to premises to the date when measures were imposed in relation to the premises under article 10.