{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-wales-order-2024/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-wales-order-2024/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/753",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Wales) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-wales-order-2024",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Animal Health Act 1981;\n“approved laboratory” (“labordy cymeradwy”) means a laboratory approved by the Welsh Ministers in accordance with article 8;\n“approved veterinary surgeon” (“milfeddyg cymeradwy”) means a veterinary surgeon approved by the Welsh Ministers in accordance with article 7;\n“bovine animal” (“anifail buchol”) means a domestic animal of the genus Bos or the species Bubalus bubalis or Bison bison;\n“bovine herd” (“buches”) means a group of two or more bovine animals;\n“BVD” (“BVD”) means bovine viral diarrhoea;\n“BVDV” (“feirws BVD”) means BVD virus;\n“calf” (“llo”) means a bovine animal aged 18 months or less;\n“collective BVD status” (“statws BVD ar y cyd”) means the BVD status of a bovine herd as determined in accordance with article 20;\n“CPH number” (“rhif CPH”) means the county parish holding number assigned to a holding or part of a holding by the Welsh Ministers;\n“holding” (“daliad”) means a holding or part of a holding to which a CPH number has been assigned;\n“individual BVD status” (“statws BVD unigol”) means the BVD status of an individual bovine animal as determined in accordance with article 19;\n“inspector” (“arolgydd”) has the same meaning as in section 89 of the Act;\n“keeper” (“ceidwad”) means the person who is in day-to-day charge of a bovine animal, and that person remains the keeper where the animal is placed temporarily in the control of another person (including where it is placed in the control of a transporter);\n“management tag” (“tag rheoli”) means an ear tag, other than an official ear tag, which is suitable to be applied to a bovine animal for the purpose of taking a sample of tissue;\n“official ear tag” (“tag clust swyddogol”) means an ear tag applied under the Cattle Identification (Wales) Regulations 2007;\n“official ear tag number” (“rhif tag clust swyddogol”) means the number which is printed on an official ear tag;\n“premises” (“mangre”) means any land, building or vehicle, of any description;\n“veterinary inspector” (“arolgydd milfeddygol”) has the same meaning as in section 89 of the Act;\n“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or a day specified as a bank holiday in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.7.2024, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/842 (W. 74), as amended by S.I. 2019/92 (W. 24)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/753/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:37.362829+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."
}