{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heads-of-sheep-and-goats-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heads-of-sheep-and-goats-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2264",
  "legislation_title": "The Heads of Sheep and Goats Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heads-of-sheep-and-goats-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“approved” means approved under the Specified Bovine Material Order;\n“food” has the meaning given in the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“non-scheme animals” means bovine animals other than those slaughtered pursuant to the purchase scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom;\n“sell” includes have in possession for sale and offer or expose for sale;\n“slaughterhouse” means any building, premises or place licensed for slaughtering animals the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption;\n“specified bovine material” has the meaning given in article 2(1) of the Specified Bovine Material Order; and\n“the Specified Bovine Material Order” means the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order the supply of the head of a sheep or goat, or of food, otherwise than by sale at, in or from any place where food is supplied in the course of a business shall be deemed to be a sale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 99, 19.4.96, p. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1941."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2264/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:05.986201+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."
}