Health of Animals Regulations

79.12 (1) The Minister may declare an eradication area to be free of pullorum disease or fowl typhoid if bacteriological tests or epidemiological studies conducted in the area during the previous three years have not identified pullorum disease or fowl typhoid in any approved hatchery supply flock in the area.

(2) The Minister may revoke a declaration made under subsection (1) if he is satisfied that

• (a) any person in the eradication area has contravened or failed to comply with section 79.11, 79.13, 79.14, 79.15, 79.16, 79.17, 79.18, 79.19 or 79.2; or

• (b) pullorum disease or fowl typhoid infection has been identified in and has spread from a flock of chickens, turkeys or game birds in the eradication area to any other flock of chickens, turkeys or game birds and has not been eradicated within one year of the date that the infection was identified.