Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations–

• “broiler chicken” means any bird of the species Gallus gallus bred for meat;

• “the Commission Decision” means Commission Decision 2005/636/EC dated 1 September 2005 ^f1 concerning a baseline survey on the prevalence of salmonella in broiler flocks of Gallus gallus;

• “faecal and environmental material” means faeces from broiler chickens, or other material which may have come into contact with such faeces or with broiler chickens, or a mixture of such faeces and such other material, and any other material which the Technical Specifications require to be sampled;

• “inspector” means an inspector appointed by the Scottish Ministers or by a local authority for the purpose of these Regulations;

• “local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994^f2;

• “person” in regulations 4(1)(f) and 7(1) does not include a body corporate or a partnership;

• “premises” includes land with or without buildings but does not include any place used only as a dwelling;

• “the Technical Specifications” means those technical specifications referred to at Article 5 of the Commission Decision having been presented to the European Commission’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 19 July 2005 which are entitled “Baseline Survey on the Prevalence of Salmonella in Broiler Flocks of Gallus gallus in the EU – Technical Specifications”.