Paragraph 2 InterpretationI1

In this Scheme—

• “approved laboratory” means a laboratory approved by the Department for the purposes of this Order;

• “blood sample” means a sample of blood taken by a veterinary surgeon;

• “bovine” means any bovine animal including an animal of the species bison bison or bubalus bubalis;

• “BVD” means bovine viral diarrhoea;

• “BVDV” means the bovine viral diarrhoea virus;

• “Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland;

• “herd” means one or more bovines for which a keeper is responsible and to whom the Department has assigned a unique herd identification number;

• “holding” means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open-air farm, any place, in which animals are held, kept or handled;

• “keeper” means a person responsible for a herd;

• “official BVD tissue tag” means a tissue sample-enabled tag approved by the Department for the purposes of taking a tissue sample for testing for the presence of BVDV under this Scheme;

• “tagged” means the attachment of approved eartags in accordance with regulation 3 of the Cattle Identification (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998^f1; and

• “tissue sample” means a sample of tissue taken from a bovine by means of an official BVD tissue tag.