{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-interim-measures-wales-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-interim-measures-wales-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/483",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (Interim Measures) (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-interim-measures-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order —\n“animals” (“anifeiliaid”) means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, pigs and sheep;\n“collecting centre” (“canolfan gasglu”) 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” (“ceidwad”) means any person having care and control of animals even on a temporary basis and includes, for the purposes of article 8(2)(a), any person transporting the animals;\n“land” (“tir”) includes common or unenclosed land;\n“premises” (“safle”) includes land, with or without buildings;\n“sole occupancy group” (“grŵp meddianaeth unigol”) has the meaning assigned by article 5;\n“veterinary surgeon” (“milfeddyg”) means a fellow or member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons;\n“slaughterhouse” (“lladd-dy”) has the meaning it is given in the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995;\n“standstill period” (“cyfnod segur”) means a period when animals may not be moved off premises because of the provisions of article 3(1)(b); and\n“veterinary treatment” (“triniaeth filfeddygol”) includes, in the case of goats, the collection of semen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S. I. 1995/539 as last amended by S. I. 2002/129 (W.17)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/483/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:49.270131+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."
}