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POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - LONG TITLE

An Act to enable provision to be made for the assistance or
improvement of the poultry industry; to secure improvements in the
produce of establishments for the breeding, hatching or rearing of
poultry by making fresh provision for the regulation of such
establishments; to authorise schemes for the testing of poultry; and
for purposes connected with those matters.
[11th June 1968]
Poultry improvement schemesPoultry improvement schemes.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 1

1. Without prejudice to the powers exercisable by the Ministry of
Agriculture (in this Act referred to as "the Ministry") under any
other enactment, the Ministry may make schemes (in this Act referred
to as "poultry improvement schemes") for the purposes of

(a)assisting the development of the poultry industry;

(b)improving the profitability of poultry production and the quality
of poultry products;

(c)promoting the breeding and distribution of stocks of healthy
poultry of good quality;

(d)assisting the adaptation of poultry production to economic and
technical change.

Restriction on operation of hatcheries, etc., without licence.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 2

2.(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, a person
shall not in the course of any business of his carry on any of
the following activities, that is to say,

(a)operate a hatchery in any premises; or

(b)on or after such day as may be appointed by order of the
Minister of Agriculture, operate an incubator in any premises; or

(c)on or after such day or days as may be so appointed, use any
premises for

(i)the production for sale, supply or distribution of eggs for
hatching; or

(ii)the rearing of poultry for sale, supply or distribution before
they attain the age of six months;

(2) Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall not apply with respect to
premises in which an incubator is operated solely for the purpose
of providing stock for the business of the person who operates the
incubator, if no part of that business involves any of the
activities mentioned in paragraph (c) of that subsection.

(3) Subsection (1)(c)(ii) shall not apply with respect to any
premises from which poultry is sold, supplied or distributed solely
for immediate slaughter.

(4) The Ministry may by permit in writing grant an exemption with
respect to any premises from the provisions of subsection (1) to
any person who satisfies the Ministry that, so far as the premises
are or will be used for

(a)the rearing for sale, supply or distribution of poultry, or

(b)the production for sale, supply or distribution of eggs for
hatching, or

(c)the hatching of eggs,

Poultry stock licences.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 3

3.(1) Subject to the provisions of the Schedule, where a person, in
accordance with those provisions, makes application to the Ministry
for a licence with respect to any premises where an activity of a
class or description to which section 2(1) applies is, or is
proposed to be, carried on, the Ministry shall issue such a licence
(in this Act referred to as a "poultry stock licence") to him
authorising him to carry on an activity of that class or
description in those premises.

(2) The provisions of the Schedule shall have effect in relation to
poultry stock licences.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 4
Conditions of poultry stock licences.

4.(1) The Ministry may prescribe conditions subject to which poultry
stock licences shall have effect, and any conditions so prescribed
which by virtue of the regulations are applicable to, or to the
premises of, the holder of any such licence, together with the
further conditions, if any, specified in the licence shall, for the
purposes of this Act, be the conditions of the licence.

(2) The conditions which may be prescribed include conditions with
respect to

(a)the classes, descriptions and age of poultry to be kept in the
premises with respect to which a poultry stock licence is in force
(in this subsection referred to as "the premises");

(b)the bringing of eggs or poultry into the premises;

(c)the identification of eggs or poultry in the premises;

(d)the keeping of records of eggs or poultry in, brought into or
sent from the premises;

(e)the keeping of records of illness and death of poultry kept in
the premises;

(f)the furnishing of returns to the Ministry;

(g)the notification by the licence-holder to the Ministry of abnormal
numbers of deaths of poultry in the premises or of circumstances
from which the existence of any poultry disease in the premises may
be inferred;

(h)the observance of any rules made or directions given by the
Ministry in connection with the disposal of carcases, faeces and any
other infective material;

(i)the submission of samples of carcases for examination by the
Ministry;

(j)the cleansing and disinfection of the premises and of any plant,
equipment or utensils therein.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 5
Standards for premises, etc.

5.(1) The Ministry may prescribe standards which must be observed by
licence-holders with respect to

(a)premises where there is carried on any activity to which section
2(1) applies; and

(b)the plant, equipment and utensils used in or in connection with
the premises.

(2) The standards which may be prescribed under this section include
standards for securing

(a)that the premises are suitable, structurally and otherwise, for
the activity in question, and are situated in such a position and
have available to them such services and facilities and generally
comply with such requirements (including requirements as to hygiene)
as appear to the Ministry to be appropriate for that activity; and

(b)that the plant, equipment and utensils are efficient and comply
with requirements such as are mentioned in paragraph (a).

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 6
Register of premises.

6.(1) The Ministry shall for the purposes of this Act cause to be
kept one or more than one register of premises with respect to
which poultry stock licences are issued, and shall cause to be
entered in the register (or, if more than one register is kept,
the appropriate register) with respect to each such licence

(a)the full name and address of the licence-holder;

(b)particulars of the premises with respect to which the licence is
issued;

(c)the class or description of activity carried on in the premises;

(d)such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(2) Any register under this section may be kept either by making
entries in a bound book or by recording the matters in question in
any other manner.

(3) The Ministry may make arrangements for the publication of any
register kept under this section, or any extract therefrom, in such
manner as the Ministry thinks fit.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 7
Inspection.

7.(1) An authorised officer shall for the purposes of this Act have
power (on production, if required, of his credentials)

(a)to enter, at any reasonable time,

(i)any premises with respect to which an application for a poultry
stock licence has been made, or

(ii)any premises with respect to which a poultry stock licence is
in force, or

<(iii)any premises with respect to which no poultry stock licence is in force but which he has reasonable cause to believe to be premises in which there is carried on any activity requiring such a licence by virtue of section 2;

(b)to inspect any such premises and the services and facilities
available thereto and any plant, equipment, utensils, eggs or
poultry, and the working procedures practised, therein, and without
payment (except as provided in subsection (2)) to take reasonable
samples of any eggs or poultry found in any such premises, or
samples of blood or mucus of any such poultry;

(c)to inspect and take extracts from and to verify any records
required to be kept by virtue of any provision of this Act.

(2) Where, under subsection (1)(b), an authorised officer takes any
poultry not suffering from any illness the Ministry shall, if so
requested by the owner of the poultry within fourteen days from the
date on which the poultry was taken, pay to the owner a sum
equivalent to the market value thereof.

Poultry testing schemes.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 8

8.(1) With a view to benefiting persons carrying on businesses in
the poultry industry and making such businesses more profitable, and
in particular to securing improvements in the produce of businesses
in the course of which there is carried on any activity to which
section 2(1) applies, the Ministry may make schemes (in this Act
referred to as "poultry testing schemes") for the purposes of
carrying out tests of poultry in order to determine the comparative
profitability of different types, breeds or strains, and to implement
any such scheme may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance,
acquire land and establish and operate, or continue to operate,
testing stations.

(2) A poultry testing scheme may include provisions for requiring
any holder of a poultry stock licence to supply at his own expense
hatching eggs or poultry for inclusion in the tests.

(3) A poultry testing scheme may also include provisions empowering
the Ministry to impose on and recover from holders of poultry stock
licences such charges (including charges calculated by reference to
an amount or quantity produced) for the purpose of meeting costs
incurred in connection with the provision of any service or facility
under this section as may with the approval of the Ministry of
Finance be specified in the scheme.

(4) Where a scheme contains any provision such as is mentioned in
subsection (2) it shall specify the limitations within which any
requirement under that subsection may be imposed.

Restriction on sale of chicks.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 9

9. A person shall not, in any shop or market or in any street,
road, highway or public place, or in any place to which the public
have or are permitted to have access,

(a)sell or offer or expose for sale, or

(b)have in his possession for the purpose of sale,

Offences.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 10

10.(1) Subject to the provisions of section 11, a person shall be
guilty of an offence if he or any person acting on his behalf

(a)wilfully obstructs or impedes an authorised officer in the
exercise of any powers conferred on the officer by virtue of this
Act or without reasonable cause fails to give to any authorised
officer acting under this Act any assistance or information which
the authorised officer may reasonably require of him for the
purposes of the performance by the authorised officer of his
functions under this Act; or

(b)alters or fraudulently uses any licence, permit or other document
issued or granted under this Act; or

(c)in connection with the application for or the issue of a licence
or the grant of a permit, or in any record kept or return made,
under this Act knowingly or recklessly makes any statement or entry
or furnishes or with intent to deceive makes use of any information
which is false in a material particular or in any material respect
misleading; or

(d)contravenes any provision of this Act or of any scheme or
regulation made thereunder, or fails to comply with either any
requirement duly made of him by the Ministry in pursuance of any
such provision or any condition of a licence issued or permit
granted under this Act.

(2) A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1)(a)
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty
pounds.

(3) A person who is guilty of an offence under any provision of
subsection (1), other than paragraph (a) thereof, or under the
provision contained in paragraph 11(4) of the Schedule shall be
liable on summary conviction

(a)in the case of a first offence under that provision to a fine
not exceeding fifty pounds;

(b)in the case of a second or subsequent offence under that
provision to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(4) The Ministry may in any scheme made under this Act or in any
regulations provide for the imposition in respect of any
contravention of any provision of the scheme or, as the case may
be, of the regulations, or any failure to comply with any
requirement made thereunder, of a lower maximum penalty than the
penalty specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (3), and
where the Ministry so provides that paragraph shall have effect in
relation to any such contravention or failure as if the reference
therein to that penalty were a reference to that lower penalty.

(5) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection
(1)(d) and the contravention or failure in respect of which he was
convicted is continued after conviction, he shall be guilty of a
further offence and shall be liable on summary conviction, in
addition to any other penalty, to a fine not exceeding five pounds
for each day on which the contravention or failure is so continued.

(6) An offence under subsection (5) shall be a continuing offence
and accordingly fresh proceedings in respect thereof may be taken
from time to time.

(7) No proceedings for an offence under any of the provisions of
this Act may be instituted except

(a)by the Ministry, or

(b)by, or with the consent of, the Attorney General.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 11
Defence of act of third party mistake, accident, etc.

11. In any proceedings for an offence under section 10 it shall be
a defence for the person charged to prove

(a)that the commission of the offence was due to the act of some
other person, or to a mistake, or to an accident or some other
cause beyond his control; and

(b)that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due
diligence to avoid the commission of such an offence by himself or
any person acting on his behalf.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 12
General provisions with respect to schemes and regulations.

12.(1) Before making

(a)any poultry improvement scheme, or

(b)any regulations under section 4 prescribing conditions subject to
which poultry stock licences are to have effect, or

(c)any poultry testing scheme empowering the imposition of, or
varying, any charges such as are mentioned in section 8(3).

(2) Poultry improvement schemes and poultry testing schemes

Para.(a) rep. by 1979 NI12 art.11(2) sch.5

(b)shall be subject to affirmative resolution.

(3) Regulations shall be subject to negative resolution.

(4) Any scheme or regulations made under this Act may contain such
incidental or supplementary provisions as appear to the Ministry to
be expedient for the purposes thereof.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 13
General financial provision.

13.... all sums received by the Ministry under this Act shall be
paid into the Exchequer.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 14
Interpretation.

14. In this Act

"the Act of 1950" has the meaning assigned to it by section 15(1);

"authorised officer" means an officer of the Ministry generally or
specially authorised in writing by the Ministry for the purposes of
this Act;

"chicks" means young poultry not more than two days old;

"eggs" means the eggs of poultry;

"hatchery" means any premises used for hatching eggs brought into
the premises for the purpose of producing chicks for sale, supply
or distribution by the occupier of the premises or by any other
person at whose request the eggs are hatched;

"licence-holder" means a person to whom a poultry stock licence has
been issued;

"the Ministry" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1);

"poultry" means domestic fowl and such other domesticated birds as
may be prescribed;

"poultry improvement scheme" has the meaning assigned to it by
section 1(1);

"poultry stock licence" has the meaning assigned to it by section
3(1);

"poultry testing scheme" has the meaning assigned to it by section
8(1);

"premises" includes any land used in connection with premises for
the purposes of the activities carried on in the premises;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations;

"the prescribed standards" means standards prescribed under section 5;

"regulations" means regulations made by the Ministry under this Act.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 15
Repeal and transitional provisions.

15.(1) The Poultry Hatcheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 (in this
Act referred to as "the Act of 1950") is hereby repealed.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by SLR 1980

(4) A licence issued by the Ministry under the Act of 1950 which
is in force at the passing of this Act shall continue in force
according to its tenor and shall be deemed to be a poultry stock
licence.

POULTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 16
Short title.

16. This Act may be cited as the Poultry Improvement Act (Northern
Ireland) 1968.1. An application for a licence shall be in such form
as the Ministry may require, and shall be made to the Ministry at
such time and in such manner as may be prescribed.

2.(1) An applicant for a licence with respect to premises where a
business involving an activity of any class or description to which
section 2(1) applies is carried on shall, at the time at which the
application is made, pay to the Ministry a fee of such amount as
may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, be prescribed
for licences with respect to premises used in connection with
businesses involving activities of that class or description.

(2) A fee prescribed under sub-paragraph (1) may be of a specified
amount or may be calculated by reference to the amount or quantity
of poultry or eggs produced, or capable of being produced, in the
premises in question.

(3) The Public Offices Fees Act 1879 (fees payable in public
offices to be collected in money or by stamps as the Ministry of
Finance by order published in the Belfast Gazette directs) shall not
apply to a fee payable under this paragraph.

3. The Ministry may refuse to issue a licence

(a)to an applicant who in his application gives information which is
false or incomplete in a material particular; or

(b)to an applicant who formerly held a licence and whose licence
has been revoked or renewal of whose licence has been refused; or

(c)if the premises with respect to which the application is made
are wholly or partly the same as those used for purposes in
connection with which a licence previously held by another person
has been revoked or refused to be renewed and the Ministry is not
satisfied that the business in connection with which the licence is
applied for is not carried on or to be carried on wholly or
partly for the benefit of that other person; or

(d)if the Ministry is not satisfied

(i)that the premises with respect to which application for the
licence is made and the plant, equipment and utensils to be used
in or in connection with the premises comply with the prescribed
standards; and

(ii)that the standard of husbandry practised or likely to be
practised in the premises is adequate.

4. A licence shall, unless suspended under paragraph 6 or revoked
under paragraph 7, be in force for such year or such other period
as the Ministry may direct, but shall be renewable; and, subject to
paragraph 7, this Schedule shall apply to the renewal of a licence
as it applies to the grant thereof.

5. The Ministry may amend any conditions specified in a licence but
no such amendment shall have effect until it has been brought to
the notice of the licence-holder.

6.(1) The Ministry may suspend a licence where, following an
inspection by an authorised officer of the premises, plant,
equipment, utensils or practice of the licence-holder, it appears to
the Ministry that the prescribed standards are not being observed or
that the standard of husbandry is inadequate, but that the
prescribed standards could be observed, or that there is reason to
believe that the standard of husbandry will be rendered adequate,
within a reasonable period.

(2) When the Ministry suspends a licence, the Ministry shall serve
on the licence-holder

(a)notice in writing of the suspension; and

(b)particulars of the action which appears to the Ministry to be
necessary to bring his premises, plant, equipment or utensils into
conformity with the prescribed standards or to render his standard
of husbandry adequate;

(3) Where the licence-holder is of the opinion that any action of
which particulars are served on him under head (b) of sub-paragraph
(2) is unreasonable, he may require a fresh inspection of his
premises, plant, equipment, utensils or practice by an authorised
officer other than the officer who made the inspection mentioned in
sub-paragraph (1); and on receipt of the report of such other
officer the Ministry shall review the suspension and the particulars
served under the said head (b), having regard to that officer's
report and any further representations which may be made by the
licence-holder.

(4) The suspension of a licence under this paragraph shall, in the
first instance, have effect for twenty-eight days or such shorter
period as the Ministry may direct, and may be extended; but, except
for the purpose mentioned in paragraph 8(2), no such extension shall
be made so as to continue the suspension for a period exceeding
fifty-six days in all.

7. The Ministry may revoke or refuse to renew a licence

(a)where the Ministry is satisfied that the licence-holder or any
person acting on his behalf has contravened or failed to comply
with any condition of the licence; or

(b)where the licence-holder is convicted of an offence under any
provision of this Act; or

(c)where the Ministry is not satisfied that the prescribed standards
are being observed or that an adequate standard of husbandry is
being practised, and it does not appear to the Ministry that those
standards can or will be observed or (as the case may be) that
the standard of husbandry will be rendered adequate within a
reasonable period; or

(d)where the licence has been suspended and any action of which
particulars have been served under sub-paragraph (2)(b) of paragraph
6, or any such action as modified in consequence of the review
mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph, has not been
completed to the satisfaction of the Ministry within the period, or
any extended period, of the suspension; or

(e)on any ground on which the Ministry might have refused to issue
a licence.

8.(1) Where the Ministry proposes to revoke or to refuse to renew
a licence, the Ministry shall serve on the licence-holder

(a)in the case of a licence other than a suspended licence, at
least twenty-eight days, or

(b)in the case of a suspended licence, at least fourteen days,

(2) Notwithstanding the limitation imposed by paragraph 6(4), the
period of suspension of any licence may be extended until the
expiration of the period of the notice mentioned in sub-paragraph
(1)(b).

9. Where the Ministry refuses to issue a licence or revokes or
refuses to renew a licence the Ministry shall serve a notice in
writing to that effect on the person whose application for a
licence has been refused or, as the case may be, whose licence has
been revoked or the renewal of whose licence has been refused; and,

(a)the notice shall specify the grounds on which the application has
been refused or the licence revoked or its renewal refused; and

(b)except where the application has been refused on any of the
grounds mentioned in paragraph 3(d) or the licence has been revoked
or the renewal thereof has been refused on any of the grounds
mentioned in paragraph 7(c) or (d), the notice shall inform that
person of his right, if he questions the grounds of the refusal or
revocation, to demand a reference upon the matters in question in
pursuance of paragraph 10, and of the time within which the demand
may be made.

10.(1) A person whose application for a licence has been refused
(except on any of the grounds mentioned in paragraph 3(d) or whose
licence has been revoked or refused to be renewed (except on any
of the grounds mentioned in paragraph 7(c) or (d)) and who
questions the existence or sufficiency of the grounds of the refusal
or revocation may demand a reference thereupon in accordance with
the succeeding provisions of this Schedule.

(2) The Minister of Agriculture shall from time to time prepare a
panel of not less than three persons each of whom shall be a
practising barrister-at-law or a practising solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland, in either case of not less
than seven years standing.

(3) Where a person, not later than the expiration of fourteen days
from the date of the service on him of notice of the refusal or
revocation, serves on the Ministry notice in writing of his
intention to demand a reference under this paragraph, the Ministry
shall send to him a copy of the panel mentioned in sub-paragraph
(2) which is for the time being in force, and that person may
select from the panel the name of a member thereof and may, not
later than twenty-eight days from the date on which the copy of
the panel was so sent to him, serve on the Ministry a demand for
a reference, naming the member selected and stating the matters
which he questions; and on the receipt by the Ministry of a demand
so served those matters, to the extent that they are within the
application of sub-paragraph (1), shall stand referred to the member
of the panel so named.

(4) The Arbitration Act (Northern Ireland) 1937 shall not apply in
relation to any reference under this paragraph.

(5) The Ministry may pay to a person acting as referee on a
reference under this Schedule fees and travelling and other
allowances in respect of his services in accordance with such scales
and subject to such conditions as the Ministry may determine with
the approval of the Ministry of Finances.

11.(1) A referee acting under this Schedule may by notice in
writing require any person

(a)to attend at the time and place set forth in the notice to
give evidence or to produce any books or documents in his custody
or under his control which relate to any matter in question on the
reference; or

(b)to furnish within such reasonable period as is specified in the
notice such information relating to any matter in question on the
reference as the referee may think fit and as the person so
required is able to furnish;

(i)no person shall be required in obedience to such a notice to
attend at any place which is more than ten miles from the place
where he resides unless the necessary expenses are paid or tendered
to him; and

(ii)nothing in this sub-paragraph shall empower the referee to
require any person to produce any book or document or to answer
any question which he would be entitled, on the ground of privilege
or otherwise, to refuse to produce or to answer if the hearing of
the reference were a proceeding in a court of law.

(2) The expenses mentioned in paragraph (1)(i) shall be paid or
tendered

(a)where the notice is issued on the application of any party to
the reference, by that party;

(b)where the notice is issued without any such application, by the
Ministry.

(3) A referee may administer oaths and examine witnesses on oath
and may accept in lieu of evidence on oath by any person a
statement in writing by that person.

(4) Any person who refuses or wilfully neglects to attend in
obedience to a notice under sub-paragraph (1), or to give evidence,
or who wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals, destroys or refuses to
produce any book or document which he may be required to produce
by any such notice, or who refuses or wilfully neglects to furnish
any information which he is required to furnish under head (b) of
sub-paragraph (1), shall be guilty of an offence.

12. The parties to the reference may appear

(a)in the case of the person demanding the reference, in person, or
by solicitor or counsel; or

(b)in the case of the Ministry, by an authorised officer, or by
solicitor or counsel;

13.(1) The following provisions shall have effect with respect to
the confirmation or quashing of any refusal or revocation in
relation to which a reference has been demanded under paragraph 10,
namely

(a)subject to head (b), if no ground of objection to the refusal
or revocation which is relevant having regard to the provisions of
paragraph 10(1) is established to the satisfaction of the referee,
he shall confirm the refusal or revocation;

(b)if no such ground of objection is so established, but the
referee is nevertheless of opinion that the grounds upon which the
refusal or revocation was made (not being grounds excepted from the
application of paragraph 10(1)) are insignificant, or so trivial that
the refusal or revocation should not be upheld, he may quash the
refusal or revocation;

(c)if such a ground of objection is so established, the referee
shall quash the refusal or revocation.

(2) Where the referee quashes a refusal or revocation as mentioned
in head (b) of sub-paragraph (1) he shall state his reasons for
the opinion mentioned in that head.

(3) Where a refusal or revocation is quashed under this paragraph,
the Ministry shall issue or, as the case requires, restore or
renew, the licence in question.

(4) The quashing under this paragraph of the revocation of a
licence shall not effect the previous operation of that revocation.

14.(1) A referee acting under this Schedule may make orders as to
the expenses incurred by the parties to the reference, and the
parties by whom any such expenses (including any expenses incurred
by the Ministry under paragraph 10(5) or 11(2)(b)) shall be paid.

(2) Any expenses awarded to the Ministry under sub-paragraph (1)
shall be recoverable by the Ministry summarily as a civil debt.

15.(1) Where a person who holds a licence dies, the licence shall
enure for the benefit of his personal representative or of any
person beneficially interested in his estate until the expiration of

(a)a period of two months from his death; or

(b)such longer period as the Ministry may allow;

(2) Where the licence in question stands suspended under paragraph
6, the reference in sub-paragraph (1) to the licence enuring shall
be construed as a reference to its enuring as a suspended licence.

16. The Ministry shall, on the payment of a fee of [5p], issue to
any person a certified copy of a licence held by him.

17. When a licence is suspended or revoked, the holder shall,
within fourteen days of receiving a request for its return to the
Ministry, return the licence to the Ministry together with any
certified copies thereof issued to him under paragraph 16.

18.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in this Schedule "licence" means
a poultry stock licence.

(2) The references to a licence in head (b) of paragraph 3, and
the first such reference in head (c) of that paragraph include
references to a licence under the Act of 1950.