
1 
This Order—
(a) may be cited as the Poultry Compartments (Scotland) Order 2010;
(b) comes into force on 10th May 2010; and
(c) extends to Scotland only.
2 
In this Order—
 “administrative site” means premises in which documents or records relating to a production site are kept;
 “Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 616/2009 implementing Council Directive 2005/94/EC as regards the approval of poultry compartments and other captive birds compartments with respect to avian influenza and additional preventive biosecurity measures in such compartments as amended from time to time; and
 “production site” means premises where poultry are kept for the purposes of breeding, rearing, fattening or egg production and which are the subject of an application under article 4.
3 
The Scottish Ministers are the competent authority for the purposes of the Commission Regulation.
4 
Applications for approval of compartments must be made in such form as the Scottish Ministers may require in accordance with the Commission Regulation.
5 

(1) An inspector may, for any purpose relating to this Order or to the Commission Regulation—
(a) enter any administrative site, production site or compartment;
(b) have access to, and inspect, any document or record;
(c) remove and retain a copy of any document or record;
(d) have access to, and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with a document or record;
(e) where a document or record is kept by means of a computer, require the document or record to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away; and
(f) be accompanied by a representative of the European Commission or any person the inspector considers necessary.
(2) A person required to do anything by an inspector acting under paragraph (1) must, unless that person has reasonable cause, do so without delay.
RICHARD LOCHHEAD
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
15th April 2010