{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-agriculture-etc-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-agriculture-etc-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2019/412",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-agriculture-etc-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“audit” means an audit of a competent or designated authority for the purposes of Article 6 in relation to any relevant legislation;\n“auditor” means a person carrying out an audit on behalf of a competent authority;\n“designated authority” means an authority designated under regulation 3;\n“enforcement officer” means an officer authorised to enforce the Official Controls Regulation and these Regulations by a competent or designated authority;\n“inspector” in relation to any relevant legislation, means an inspector, veterinary inspector, or other officer authorised by a competent or designated authority to act in Scotland under that legislation;\n“official controls” has the meaning given by Article 2(1);\n“other official activities” has the meaning given by Article 2(2);\n“premises” includes any means of transport;\n“relevant legislation” means ... legislation relating to the areas specified in sub-paragraphs (b), (d), (e) and (f) of Article 1(2);\n“the Official Controls Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of feed and food law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products , and where the context requires it includes a reference to measures in implementing and delegated regulations made under the Official Controls Regulation;\n“Feed and Food Regulations” means the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009 .\n(2) Unless otherwise provided in this regulation, terms used in these Regulations have the same meaning as they have in the Official Controls Regulation.\n(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to an “Article” or “Title” are to an Article or Title of the Official Controls Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health and Welfare and Official Controls (Agriculture) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/380), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health and Welfare and Official Controls (Agriculture) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/380), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ No L 95, 7.04.2017, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2009/446 as last amended by S.S.I. 2019/407."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 14.12.2019, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/412/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:34.137864+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."
}