{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-vaccination-against-foot-and-mouth-disease-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2779",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Vaccination Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-vaccination-against-foot-and-mouth-disease-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“the appropriate authority” means in England the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in Wales the National Assembly for Wales, in Scotland the Scottish Ministers and in Northern Ireland the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development;\n“the Chief Veterinary Officer” means the officer appointed to that post in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs acting in connection with the Council Directive on FMD;\n“the Council Directive on FMD” means Council Directive 2003/85/EC on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC;\n“establishment of a relevant risk” means the identification by the Chief Veterinary Officer of a relevant risk and communication by her or on her behalf of that identification in such manner and to such persons as she regards appropriate in the circumstances;\n“FMD” means foot-and-mouth disease;\n“FMD vaccine” means any veterinary drug presented for use in vaccination against FMD;\n“lay vaccinator” means a person entitled by virtue of the Veterinary Surgery (Vaccination against Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Order 2004 to carry out a minor treatment under section 19(4)(e) of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966;\n“relevant risk” means risk of outbreak of FMD in the United Kingdom which is posed in the circumstances described in Article 50.1(b) of the Council Directive on FMD;\n“response to a relevant risk” means any act or sequence of acts to prevent an outbreak of FMD in the United Kingdom after the establishment of a relevant risk;\n“response to an outbreak of FMD” means any act or sequence of acts to control or eradicate FMD in all or any part of the United Kingdom which is undertaken once an outbreak of FMD has occurred in the United Kingdom;\n“RNA” means ribonucleic acid;\nand other expressions have the same meanings as in the Council Directive on FMD.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L306, 22.11.2003, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/2780"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1966 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2779/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:16:23.990344+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."
}