{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-inspection-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-inspection-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2236",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Inspection Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-inspection-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“animals” means bovine animals (including buffalo), swine, sheep, goats and solipeds;\n“blood” means blood derived from an animal;\n“carcase” means the body of a dead animal;\n“examine in detail” means examine by making multiple deep incisions;\n“inspector” means a person authorised or deemed to be authorised under the Food Act 1984 to act in relation to the examination and seizure of meat;\n“local authority” means—\n(a) as respects the City of London, the Common Council; and\n(b) as respects any district or London borough, the council of the district or borough;\n“offal” means any part of a dead animal removed from the carcase in the process of dressing it, but does not include the hide or skin;\n“slaughterhouse” means a place for slaughtering animals, the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption, and includes any place available in connection therewith for the confinement of animals while awaiting slaughter there or for keeping, or subjecting to any treatment or process, products of the slaughtering of animals there, but does not include any place available in connection with a slaughterhouse and used solely for the manufacture of bacon, ham, sausage, meat pies or other manufactured meat products or for the storage of meat used in such manufacture.\n(2) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations.\n(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as derogating from the provisions of the Animal Health Act 1981 or of any order made thereunder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2495",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat Inspection (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2236/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:14:07.096521+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."
}