{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-racing-greyhounds-regulations-2010/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-racing-greyhounds-regulations-2010/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111490914",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-racing-greyhounds-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“attending veterinary surgeon” means a veterinary surgeon attending a track pursuant to Condition 1 of the licensing conditions;\n“licence” means a licence to manage a track;\n“licensing conditions” means those conditions set out in the Schedule;\n“local authority” means—\n(a) where there is, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994, a unitary authority for a local government area, that authority;\n(b) where there is not a unitary authority—\n(i) in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;\n(ii) in a non-metropolitan county, any council of any district in that county;\n(iii) in each London borough, the council of that borough; or\n(iv) in the city of London, the Common Council;\n“operator” means, except in Part 2 of the Schedule, a person responsible for managing a track;\n“owner” means an individual who owns a greyhound, or a representative of a partnership, unincorporated association or company that has ownership of a greyhound;\n“race” means the competing of running greyhounds at premises where facilities for betting are being provided in relation to that activity either at those premises or elsewhere;\n“sales trial” means the timing of a greyhound as it runs for the purpose of selling it;\n“track” means premises where a race, trial or sales trial occurs; and\n“trial” means the timing of a greyhound as it runs for the purpose of determining its position, or race category, in relation to any subsequent race.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111490914/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:56:08.014089+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."
}