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A
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Bill
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To
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prohibit
the keeping of laying hens in enriched cages.
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:—
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1 Protection
of hens
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(1) Section
1 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (c. 34)
shall be
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amended as follows.
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(2) After
subsection (2), there shall be inserted—
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“(3) A
person commits an offence if without lawful authority or excuse
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(proof
of which shall lie on him) he keeps, or knowingly causes or
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permits
to be kept, any laying hen in an enriched cage.
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(4) In
this section—
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“enriched
cage” means a cage referred to in Chapter III of Council
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Directive
1999/74/EC of 19 July 1999 laying down minimum
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standards
for the protection of laying hens; and
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“laying
hen” means a hen of the species Gallus
gallus which has
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reached
laying maturity and is kept for production of eggs not
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intended
for hatching.”
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2 Short
title, commencement and extent
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(1) This
Act may be cited as the Welfare of Laying Hens (Enriched Cages) Act
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2003.
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(2) This
Act shall come into force on 1 January 2012.
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(3) This
Act extends to England and Wales only.
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