{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2246",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;\n“affected animal” means a bovine animal which is affected with the disease;\n“bovine animal” means a bull, cow, steer, heifer or calf;\n“the disease” means bovine spongiform encephalopathy;\n“the Divisional Veterinary Officer” means the veterinary inspector appointed for the time being by the Minister to receive information about affected or suspected animals, or the carcases of such animals, for the area in which such animals or carcases are;\n“feedingstuff” includes pet food;\n“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;\n“market” means a market, fairground, sale-yard or any other place where bovine animals are commonly exposed for sale;\n“premises” includes land;\n“protein” means any protein material which is derived from a carcase but does not include milk or any milk product or dicalcium bone phosphate;\n“research establishment” means an establishment carrying out research into the disease;\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;\n“specified bovine offal” means the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal over six months of age which has died or has been slaughtered, as the case may be, in the United Kingdom;\n“suspected animal” means a bovine animal which is suspected of being affected with the disease;\n“veterinary surgeon” means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or in the supplementary veterinary register.\n(2) Any reference in this Order—\n(a) to a numbered article, is a reference to the article bearing that number in this Order, and\n(b) to a lettered form, is a reference to the Form bearing that letter in the Schedule to this Order.",
  "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": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1928",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Bovine Offal Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2627",
      "affecting_title": "The Spongiform Encephalopathy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health Orders (Divisional Veterinary Manager Amendment) Order 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2246/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:37:01.705555+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."
}