{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“animals” means any bovine animals, goats, sheep or swine;\n“identification mark” in relation to pigs has the meaning given to the term “holding number” in the Aujeszky’s Disease Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1994 and in relation to sheep and goats means the mark applied or attached to such sheep or goats in accordance with the Identification and Movement of Sheep and Goats Order (Northern Ireland) 1997;\n“identification number” in relation to a bovine animal has the same meaning as in the Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1964;\n“market” means a market place, sale-yard or any other premises or place to which animals are brought from any other place and exposed for sale and includes any place, lairage or parking area adjoining a market and used in connection with it;\n“market operator” means the person for the time being responsible for managing the reception or the sale of animals in a market.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 1.5.1997, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.R. 1994 No. 199, Schedule"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 173"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1964 No. 31; relevant amending order is S.R. 1986 No. 48"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/172",
      "affecting_title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/27",
      "affecting_title": "Cattle Identification (Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/27",
      "affecting_title": "Cattle Identification (Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/172/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:29.261170+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."
}