No person shall use any building on any poultry run for the holding or storing of eggs unless that building conforms to or is superior to the requirements in that behalf of any regulations made under this Act.

For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section the term ‘eggs’ means eggs intended for human consumption, whether they are still in the shell or are broken out from the shell.”

Every owner of poultry who discovers or suspects an outbreak of disease among his poultry shall—

Where an Inspector finds that any poultry is diseased he may, by notice in writing in the prescribed form, direct the owner of the poultry to comply with any of the following requirements:

If any owner of poultry fails to take any measures or to do any acts required under subsection (2) of this section, the Inspector may himself perform the same at the expense in all things of the owner, who shall not thereby be relieved from any liability that he may have incurred under this Act by reason of his default.

Any expenses incurred by an Inspector under sub section (3) of this section shall be repaid to the Inspector on demand, and in default of payment the amount of such expenses may be recovered from the owner as a debt due to the Crown.”

For the purposes of this section—

Where any Inspector is satisfied that any chickens on any poultry run are infected with pullorum disease he may require the owner of the chickens to state the source from which he obtained them and, if they were obtained from a hatchery as day-old chicks, sufficient particulars relating to the hatchery as will enable it to be readily identified.

Where the chickens were bred by their owner, the Inspector may, by notice in writing in the form prescribed, require him to submit all poultry described in the notice to the pullorum agglutination test within the time limited in the notice.

Where the chickens were obtained from a hatchery as day-old chicks, the Inspector may require the owner of the hatchery to state the name and address of every person from whom he has obtained hatching-eggs within the preceding month, and the Inspector may also, by notice in writing in the prescribed form, require the owner of the hatchery and every such person to submit all poultry described in the notice to the pullorum agglutination test within the time limited in the notice.

Where any person is required to submit poultry to the pullorum agglutination test in accordance with the provisions of this section the test shall be made at the expense of that person by a person for the time being approved in that behalf by the Director-General of Agriculture.

Where, in accordance with this section, any poultry is submitted to the pullorum agglutination test and is shown by such test to be a carrier of pullorum disease, the owner of the poultry shall cause it to be destroyed or disposed of in such manner and within such period as an Inspector may direct in writing.”

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no person shall Knowingly sell, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession for sale, any poultry which is diseased.

Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to the sale of any poultry for human consumption if the disease from which the poultry suffers does not render it unfit for human consumption.

Any Inspector may, by notice in writing in the prescribed form, require any person who offers or exposes for sale or has in his possession for sale any diseased poultry to destroy or dispose of it within such period and in such manner as the Inspector may direct.”

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

All regulations made under this Act and all Orders in Council made under section 11 hereof shall be laid before Parliament.”