{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1867",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;\n“appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;\n“approved identification” means an identification made in a manner approved by the appropriate Minister identifying the individual animal;\n“bovine animal” means a bull, cow, steer, heifer or calf;\n“dairy herd” means any bovine animals which are kept for milk production;\n“dam” means the female parent of a calf whether or not the calf was the product of an implanted ovum or embryo and excludes a female bovine animal from which the ovum or embryo has been taken;\n“distinguishing mark” means a mark placed on a bovine animal or bovine animals to distinguish it or them, as the case may be, from other bovine animals;\n“inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of the Act by the Minister or by a local authority, and, when used in relation to an officer of the Ministry, includes a veterinary inspector;\n“the Minister” and “the Ministry” mean respectively the Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“premises” includes land with or without buildings but does not include any part ofany premises used for the temporary detention of animals as a market, sale-yard, fairground, slaughterhouse lair or place of exhibition;\n“slaughterhouse” means–\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard as defined in section 34 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974, and\n(b) in relation to Scotland, a slaughterhouse as defined in section 22 of the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980; and\n“veterinary inspector” means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1867/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:06:40.862497+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."
}