{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-establishments-laying-hens-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-establishments-laying-hens-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3100",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Establishments (Laying Hens) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-establishments-laying-hens-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "—In these Regulations—\n...\n“establishment” means any site at which 350 or more laying hens are kept;\n“laying hens” means hens of the species Gallus gallus which have reached maturity and are kept for the production of eggs not intended for hatching;\n“local authority” means—\n(a)in any part of England where there is, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994, a unitary authority for that local government area, that authority;\n(b)where there is not a unitary authority—\n(i)in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;\n(ii)in a non-metropolitan county, the council of that county; or\n(iii)in each London borough, the council of that borough;\n(c)in the City of London, the Common Council; and\n“register” means the register of establishments maintained by the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 3.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1033), regs. 1(1), 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3100/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:41:33.002130+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."
}