{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-travel-scheme-scotland-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/229",
  "legislation_title": "The Pet Travel Scheme (Scotland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-travel-scheme-scotland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order–\n“airport” means the aggregate of the land, buildings and works comprised in an aerodrome within the meaning of the Civil Aviation Act 1982;\n“animal” means a pet cat or pet dog;\n“carrier” means any undertaking carrying goods or passengers for hire by land, sea or air;\n“microchip” means an electronic transponder;\n“official health certificate” means a certificate prepared and distributed by the competent authority for completion and signature by an official veterinary surgeon in relation to rabies, and by a veterinary surgeon entitled to practise veterinary medicine in the country in which the treatment is administered in the case of Echinococcus multilocularis and ticks.\n“official veterinary surgeon” means in Scotland a veterinary surgeon authorised by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this Order, and outside Scotland means a veterinary surgeon authorised by the competent authority to grant certification for the purposes of export of cats and dogs;\n“other animal” means an animal (other than man) belonging to any of the orders of mammals specified in Parts I and II of Schedule 1 to the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974, other than a pet cat or a pet dog;\n“pet cat” and “pet dog” means respectively a cat of the species Felis catus or a dog of the species Canis familiaris which is not traded commercially under the provisions of article 4A of the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974;\n“recognised laboratory” means a laboratory recognised in accordance with article 5.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication, as defined in the Electronic Communications Act 2000, which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1982 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/2211 as relevantly amended in relation to Scotland by 1977/361, 1984/1182, 1986/2062 and 1994/1405 and 1716. Article 4A was added by S.I. 1994/1716.."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}