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Article 2 InterpretationI1

England and Wales

In this Order—

  • “animals” (“anifeiliaid”) means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, pigs and sheep;

  • “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);

  • “keeper” (“ceidwad”) 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;

  • “land” (“tir”) includes common or unenclosed land;

  • “the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;

  • “premises” (“safle”) includes land, with or without buildings;

  • F1“quarantine unit” (“uned gwarantin”) means a facility or premises approved in writing for quarantine purposes by a body accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS);

  • “sole occupancy group” (“grŵp meddianaeth unigol”) has the meaning assigned by article 11;

  • “slaughterhouse” (“lladd-dy”) has the meaning it is given in the F2Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006;

  • “standstill period” (“cyfnod segur”) means a period when animals may not be moved off premises because of the provisions of articles 4 or 5;

  • F3...

  • and

  • “veterinary treatment” (“triniaeth filfeddygol”) includes, in the case of goats, the collection of semen.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in art. 2 inserted (11.9.2017) by The Disease Control (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/674), arts. 1(3), 3(b) (as amended by S.I. 2017/677, art. 3)

F2

Words in art. 2 substituted (11.9.2017) by The Disease Control (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/674), arts. 1(3), 3(a) (as amended by S.I. 2017/677, art. 3)

F3

Words in art. 2 omitted (6.6.2008) by virtue of The Disease Control (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1314), arts. 1, 2(2)

Commencement

I1

Art. 2 in force at 1.8.2003, see art. 1