{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-movement-restrictions-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-movement-restrictions-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/352",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Diseases (Notification and Movement Restrictions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-movement-restrictions-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“affected” means affected with the specified disease;\n“carcase” means the carcase of an animal or bird and includes part of a carcase, and the meat, bones, skin, offal or any part of an animal or bird or any portion thereof;\n“cleansing and disinfection notice” means a notice in writing served by a veterinary inspector under Article 8;\n“Divisional Veterinary Officer” means a Divisional Veterinary Officer of the Department;\n“holding” means any establishment, construction or place where animals or poultry are held, kept or handled;\n“premises” includes land with or without buildings;\n“restriction notice” means a notice in the form prescribed in Schedule 2;\n“specified disease” means a disease specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 when it affects such animals or poultry as are specified in column 3 of that Schedule opposite the reference to such a disease;\n“suspected” means suspected of being affected; and\n“the 1981 Order” means the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 21.8.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/352/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:52.429934+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."
}