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    The government of Hong Kong will ban backyard poultry keeping starting next Monday to reduce the risk of an avian influenza outbreak. The ban will prohibit households from keeping chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, and quails. Patrol teams will enforce the new law, and households are asked to stop keeping poultry and can call a government hotline for assistance in removing their birds.

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    The government of Hong Kong will ban backyard poultry keeping starting next Monday to reduce the risk of an avian influenza outbreak. The ban will prohibit households from keeping chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, and quails. Patrol teams will enforce the new law, and households are asked to stop keeping poultry and can call a government hotline for assistance in removing their birds.

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    8/30/22, 6:47 PM Backyard poultry keeping to be banned from Monday

    Backyard poultry keeping to be banned from Monday Prevention of Avian Influenza


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    The Government today (February 8) gazettes legislative amendments


    to the Public Health (Animals and Birds) (Licensing of Livestock
    Keeping) Regulation and the Waste Disposal Ordinance to ban
    backyard poultry keeping activities in Hong Kong.

    A spokesman for the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau said the ban,
    which would come into force next Monday (February 13), would be
    imposed to protect public health and reduce the risk of an avian
    influenza outbreak in Hong Kong.

    With the introduction of the legislative amendments, households


    would not be allowed to keep any backyard poultry. Unauthorised
    keeping of five kinds of poultry – chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons
    and quails – would be an offence with a fine of $50,000 to
    $100,000.

    "Patrol teams will be formed to ensure effective enforcement of


    the new law. Households keeping backyard poultry are appealed not
    to keep their poultry and those who require government assistance
    may call government hotline 1823", the spokesman said.

    Ends/Wednesday, February 8, 2006


    Issued at HKT 11:05

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