Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “the Act” means the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956;

• “authorised officer” has the meaning given to it in section 58 of the Act;

• “dead stock collection centre” has the meaning given to it in the Meat and Poultry Meat (Staining and Sterilisation) (Scotland) Regulations 1983^f1 (hereinafter referred to as “the 1983 Regulations”);

• “head” does not include tonsils;

• “inspector” means a person holding one of the qualifications set out in Schedule 6 to the Food (Meat Inspection) (Scotland) Regulations 1988^f2;

• “knacker’s yard” has the meaning given to it in section 22 of the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980^f3;

• “local authority” means the council of an islands area or district and, in relation to any land or premises, means the local authority within whose area the land or premises is or are situated;

• “processor” has the meaning given to it in the 1983 Regulations and also includes a waste food processor licensed under the provisions of the Diseases of Animals (Waste Food) Order 1973^f4 to receive unprocessed waste food;

• “sell” includes have in possession for sale or offer or expose for sale and “sale” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly;

• “slaughterhouse” has the meaning given to it by section 22 of the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980, except that it does not include any place available in connection with a slaughterhouse and used solely for the manufacture of bacon and ham, sausages, meat pies or other manufactured meat products, or for the storage of meat used in such manufacture;

• “specialist boning plant” means premises (not being a slaughterhouse, knacker’s yard or dead stock collection centre) where a business of removing meat from bones is carried on but does not include any premises where such removal of meat is made in the course of or for the purposes of the sale by retail of meat;

• “specified bovine offal” means the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and inte stines of a bovine animal which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom and which is no longer part of a whole dead animal;

• “intestines” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum;

• “stained” has the meaning given to it in the 1983 Regulations and “stain” and “staining” shall be construed accordingly;

• “sterilised” has the meaning given to it in the 1983 Regulations and “sterilise” and “sterilisation” shall be construed accordingly.

For the purposes of these Regulations, the supply of food otherwise than by sale at, in or from any place where food is supplied in the course of a business shall be deemed to be a sale of that food, and references to purchasing and purchasers shall be construed accordingly; and where in connection with any business in the course of which food is supplied the place where the food is served to the customers is different from the place where the food is consumed, both those places shall be deemed to be places in which food is sold.

Except insofar as the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.