{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-england-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-england-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1515",
  "legislation_title": "The Rendering (Fluid Treatment) (England) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-england-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“animal by-product” means—\n(a) animal by-product as defined in the Animal By-Products Order 1999; and\n(b) specified risk material as defined in the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 and the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997;\n“controlled waters” shall have the same meaning as for the purposes of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n“fluid” includes any liquid, and any property of, or any organism or substance contained in, any liquid;\n“ruminant related fluid” means fluid arising in relation to the rendering or part rendering of ruminant animal by-products from premises at which such rendering or part rendering is carried out and includes fluid a constituent part of which is ruminant related fluid;\n“rendering” and “part rendering” have the same meaning respectively as they have for the purposes of the Animal By-Products Order 1999 and the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, a biochemical oxygen demand shall be ascertainable by reference to a five day incubation period with attenuated nitrification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/646."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2964, as amended by S.I. 2000/2726, S.I. 2000/3243 and S.I. 2000/3377."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2965, amended by S.I. 1997/3062, S.I. 1998/2405 (itself amended by S.I. 1997/2431), S.I. 1999/539, S.I. 2000/656, S.I. 2000/2672, S.I. 2000/3381 and S.I. 2001/817."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1515/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:50:17.991236+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."
}