{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charges-for-residues-surveillance-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charges-for-residues-surveillance-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Charges for Residues Surveillance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charges-for-residues-surveillance-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“animal” means any bovine animal, swine, soliped, sheep, goat, poultry, game or wild game;\n“animal product” means milk or eggs;\n“brown trout” means any fish of the species Salmo trutta which has spent all of its life in fresh water;\n“carcase” means the whole body of a slaughtered animal after bleeding and dressing;\n“Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland;\n“eggs” means hen eggs in shell, suitable for direct human consumption or for use in the food industry except for broken eggs, incubated eggs or cooked eggs;\n“fish” means salmon, brown trout or rainbow trout;\n“game” means—\n(a) land mammals which are reared and slaughtered in captivity, excluding—\n(i) any living within an enclosed territory under conditions of freedom similar to those that they would enjoy if they were living in the wild,\n(ii) any bovine animal, swine, soliped, sheep or goat, and\n(iii) members of the family Leporidea;\n(b) birds (including ratites but excluding poultry) which are not generally considered to be domestic but which are bred, reared and slaughtered in captivity; and\n(c) domestic rabbits;\n“milk” means cows milk;\n“poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks or geese;\n“rainbow trout” means fish of the species Oncorhynchus mykiss;\n“salmon” means fish of the species Salmo salar;\n“wild game” means—\n(d) wild land mammals which are hunted (including wild land mammals living within an enclosed area under conditions of freedom similar to those that they would enjoy if they were living in the wild); or\n(e) wild birds.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 2.5.2010, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/124/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:42.546806+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."
}