{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-wales-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-wales-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/1966",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-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 13(2)(a), any person transporting the animals;\n“land” (“tir”) includes common or unenclosed land;\n“the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“premises” (“safle”) includes land, with or without buildings;\n“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);\n“sole occupancy group” (“grŵp meddianaeth unigol”) has the meaning assigned by article 11;\n“slaughterhouse” (“lladd-dy”) has the meaning it is given in the Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006;\n“standstill period” (“cyfnod segur”) means a period when animals may not be moved off premises because of the provisions of articles 4 or 5;\n...\nand\n“veterinary treatment” (“triniaeth filfeddygol”) includes, in the case of goats, the collection of semen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.8.2003, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/1966/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:10:37.156683+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."
}