{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmonella-in-laying-flocks-survey-powers-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmonella-in-laying-flocks-survey-powers-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2885",
  "legislation_title": "The Salmonella in Laying Flocks (Survey Powers) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmonella-in-laying-flocks-survey-powers-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authorised officer” means a person appointed by a local authority for the purpose of enforcing these Regulations;\n“the Commission Decision” means Commission Decision 2004/665/EC dated 22 September 2004 concerning a baseline study on the prevalence of Salmonella in laying flocks of Gallus gallus;\n“faecal and environmental material” means faeces, moist litter, dust and dusty material and any other material which the Technical Specifications require to be sampled;\n“inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purpose of these Regulations by the Secretary of State;\n“laying hen” means any bird of the species Gallus gallus that produces eggs for human consumption;\n“local authority” means:\n(a) in any part of England where there is, within the meaning of 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;\n“premises” includes land with or without buildings but does not include any place used only as a dwelling; and\n“the Technical Specifications” mean those technical specifications referred to at Article 5 of the Commission Decision as having been presented to the European Commission’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 15th July 2004 and which are entitled “Baseline Study on the Prevalence of Salmonella in Laying Flocks of Gallus gallus in the EU – Technical Specifications”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2885/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:16:03.274298+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."
}