CONDITIONS FOR KEEPING POULTRY IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS

(1) A person shall not keep or suffer to remain, in any residential area a rooster, turkey, goose or geese, peacock or a peahen.

(2) Notwithstanding sub-clause (1), the owner or occupier of a premises situated in any residential area shall not keep thereon or permit to be kept thereon any poultry otherwise than under the following conditions:

(a) no poultry shall be kept in an open yard;

(b) poultry must be kept in a shed or hut designed to permit a deep litter system in accordance with the diagram which follows this clause and the following specifications:

(i) the floor shall be concrete, brick paving, compressed limestone or any other suitable impervious surface;

(ii) frames shall be of timber, steel, brick or other approved material;

(iii) cladding shall be of sheet metal, brick, weatherboard or other materials approved by an environmental health officer;

(iv) the roof shall have sufficient slope to shed storm water;

(v) the poultry shed to be constructed in a sound and weatherproof manner and to be between 1.5m to 2.0 m in height;

(vi) provision must be made for adequate ventilation to the shed during hot weather;

(vii) the minimum size of any shed must allow for at least 0.3m2 for each and every bird kept therein;

(viii) the roof, walls, floor, doors and ventilating panels must be maintained in good order and condition at all times;

(ix) the floor must be covered with a layer of dry sand or sawdust at least 75 millimetres deep; and

(x) the sawdust or sand must be kept dry at all times and be changed at least once every 6 months or when directed by an environmental health officer.

(3) A person shall not permit a poultry shed to be nearer than 1 metre from the boundary of land in other occupation or 9 metres from any dwelling house or street.

(4) A person shall not keep more than 12 poultry (including a maximum of 2 ducks) in any residential area.