{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-beef-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/404",
  "legislation_title": "Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-beef-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part III",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the Beef Assurance Scheme” means the Scheme for the registration of herds under and for the purposes of this Part and for the certification of animals belonging to such herds;\n“beef herd” means a herd of bovine animals kept wholly or mainly for the production of meat;\n“dairy herd” means a herd of bovine animals kept wholly or mainly for the production of milk;\n“herd” means one or more bovine animals in the same ownership;\n“Register” means the register kept by the Department under regulation 4(2) and “registered” in relation to any herd means for the time being entered in the Register under that paragraph;\n“veterinary inspector” means a person appointed by the Department to be an inspector for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, being a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons or any veterinary practitioner qualified as approved by the Department.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/78",
      "affecting_title": "Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/404/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:54.430489+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."
}