{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-gatherings-interim-measures-england-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-gatherings-interim-measures-england-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/253",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-gatherings-interim-measures-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“animals” means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, sheep and pigs;\n“animal area” has the meaning given in article 4(3)(c);\n“animal gathering” means an occasion at which animals are brought together for—\n(a) a sale,\n(b) a show or exhibition,\n(c) onward consignment for slaughter within Great Britain, or\n(d) onward consignment within Great Britain for further rearing or finishing,\nand includes the reception or temporary detention of those animals;\n“approved disinfectant” means a disinfectant approved under the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978 at the concentration required under that Order for “General Orders”; and\n“equipment” includes pens and hurdles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/32 as amended by S.I. 1994/3141 and S.I. 1999/919 and S.I. 2000/3195 and, as regards England, S.I. 2001/608."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/253/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:32.935564+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."
}