{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“animals” means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, pigs and sheep;\n“collecting centre” means premises used for the intermediate reception of animals intended to be moved elsewhere (but does not include a market or other place used for the sale or trading of animals unless all the animals there are intended for immediate slaughter);\n“keeper” means any person having care and control of animals even on a temporary basis and includes, for the purposes of article 13(2)(a), any person transporting the animals;\n“land” includes common or unenclosed land;\n“premises” includes land, with or without buildings;\n“sole occupancy group” has the meaning assigned by article 11;\n...\n“slaughterhouse” has the meaning it is given in the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013;\n“standstill period” means a period when animals may not be moved off premises because of the provisions of articles 4 or 5; and\n“veterinary treatment” includes, in the case of goats, the collection of semen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (12.5.2008) by virtue of The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1066), arts. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (6.4.2016) by The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/280), arts. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1729/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:16:24.578901+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."
}