{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-scotland-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-scotland-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/189",
  "legislation_title": "The Rendering (Fluid Treatment) (Scotland) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-scotland-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\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 Regulations 1997;\n“fluid” includes any liquid, and any property of, or any organism or substance contained in, any liquid; and\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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/646, as amended, as regards Scotland, by S.S.I. 2001/171."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2965, as amended by S.I. 1997/3062, 1998/2045 (itself amended by S.I. 1998/2431), 1999/539, and as regards Scotland, by S.S.I. 2000/62, 2000/345, 2001/3 and 2001/86."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2011/171",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2002/255",
      "affecting_title": "The TSE (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/411",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal By-Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/530",
      "affecting_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/177",
      "affecting_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/189/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:46:35.933648+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."
}