CONTROL OF POULTRY DISEASE REGULATIONS

CONTROL OF POULTRY DISEASE

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.22

CONTROL OF POULTRY DISEASE REGULATIONS

29th March, 1968

LEGAL NOTICE 29 of 1968.

The title of these Regulations is Control of Poultry Disease

Regulations.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires -

"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and includes any

officer of the Department of Agriculture duly authorised by him to

act on his behalf;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for agriculture;

"poultry" has the same meaning as is assigned to it in the

Prevention of Disease Ordinance.

(1) The movement of any poultry by any person or persons

into, within or out of the Island of Malta is prohibited unless it has

been authorised in each case by the Director.

(2) The Director may grant an authorisation for the purpose of

the sub-regulation (1) of this regulation subject to such conditions

as he may deem proper to impose.

(3) Any person or persons who avail themselves of an

authorisation granted by the Director without complying with any

of the conditions to which such authorisation was made subject

shall be deemed to have contravened sub-regulation (1) of this

regulation.

The Director may order the vaccination of any healthy

poultry in such manner as he may deem fit.