{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1090",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“animal” (“anifail”) means a ruminating animal or a camelid;\n“carcase” (“carcas”) means the carcase of an animal;\n“Chief Veterinary Officer” (“Prif Swyddog milfeddygol”) means the Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales;\n“control zone” (“parth rheoli”) means a zone referred to in regulation 12;\n“germinal product” (“cynnyrch cenhedlol”) means the embryo, ovum, or semen of an animal;\n“inactivated vaccines” (“brechlynnau anweithredol”) means vaccines that are not live attenuated vaccines;\n“infected premises” (“mangre heintiedig”) means premises on which the existence of bluetongue has been confirmed;\n“inspector” (“arolygydd”) means an inspector appointed as such by the Welsh Ministers or a local authority for the purpose of these Regulations and, unless the context otherwise requires, includes a veterinary inspector;\n“live attenuated vaccines” (“brechlynnau byw a wanhawyd”) means vaccines which are produced by adapting bluetongue virus field isolates through serial passages in tissue culture or in embryonated hens' eggs;\n“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means in relation to an area the county council or county borough council for that area;\n“midge” (“gwybedyn”) means an insect of the genus Culicoides;\n“premises” (“mangre”) includes any any land, building or other place;\n“vaccine” (“brechlyn”) means vaccine against bluetongue virus; and\n“veterinary inspector” (“arolygydd milfeddygol”) means a person appointed as such by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of these Regulations.\n(2) Any authorisation, licence, notice or designation under these Regulations must be in writing, may be subject to conditions and may be amended, suspended or revoked ... at any time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (10.10.2012) by The Bluetongue (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2403), regs. 1(3), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (23.9.2024) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1090/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:23.338709+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."
}