{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-gatherings-interim-measures-england-order-2002/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-gatherings-interim-measures-england-order-2002/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/202",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-gatherings-interim-measures-england-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:\n“animal gathering” means an occasion at which animals are brought together for the purposes of—\n(a) sale;\n(b) show;\n(c) exhibition;\n(d) onward consignment for slaughter within Great Britain; or\n(e) in the case of store cattle, onward consignment within Great Britain for further rearing or finishing,\nand includes the reception or temporary detention of those animals; and\n“approved disinfectant” means a disinfectant listed in the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978 as being approved for the time being for use under general orders.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/32. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/934; S.I. 1999/919 and S.I. 2001/608."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1765",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words deleted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1328",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words deleted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1328",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/202/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:16:04.688847+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}