{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-ships-and-aircraft-england-and-scotland-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-ships-and-aircraft-england-and-scotland-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1895",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Ships and Aircraft) (England and Scotland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-ships-and-aircraft-england-and-scotland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“exempt ship or aircraft” means any sovereign immune ship or aircraft or any ship of a State other than the United Kingdom which is exercising the right of innocent passage through that part of the United Kingdom territorial sea adjacent to England or Scotland;\n“home-going ship” means a ship which is engaged exclusively in—\n(a)plying in internal waters, or\n(b)excursions which last not more than one day, start and end in Great Britain and do not involve calling at any place outside Great Britain;\n“innocent passage” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Part II Section 3A of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;\n“internal waters” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Article 8(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;\n“the principal Hygiene and Temperature Control provisions” means—\n(a)...\n(b)...\n“sovereign immune ship or aircraft” means a ship or aircraft belonging to a State other than the United Kingdom and which is not in use for commercial purposes;\n“territorial sea” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 .",
  "extent": "E+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) revoked (E.) (1.1.2006) by The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2059), regs. 1(b), 33(1), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) revoked (S.) (1.1.2006) by The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/505), reg. 1(b), sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1987 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1895/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:14:42.050815+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."
}