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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-inspection-charges-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Inspection Charges) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-inspection-charges-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“authorised” means authorised under regulation 15(7) of the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997;\n“cutting premises” means cutting premises (as defined by regulation 2(1) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995) licensed under regulation 4 thereof;\n“employers' National Insurance contributions” means those social security contributions for which employers are liable under Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“owner” means, in relation to any slaughterhouse or any authorised cutting premises, any person (save one who is also its occupier) who owns any interest in it;\n“slaughterhouse” includes an authorised slaughterhouse;\n“the SRM charge” means the charge calculated in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations in respect of the costs incurred by the Minister in carrying out the SRM inspections;\n“the SRM inspections” means any of the inspections and controls specified in regulation 10(9) or 15(4) of the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997;\n“SRM inspector” means a person engaged in carrying out the SRM inspections on behalf of the Minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2965, amended by S.I. 1997/3062 and S.I. 1998/2405 (which last was itself amended by S.I. 1998/2431)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/539, amended by S.I. 1995/731, S.I. 1995/1763, S.I. 1995/2148, S.I. 1995/2200, S.I. 1995/3124, S.I. 1995/3189, S.I. 1996/1148, S.I. 1996/2235, S.I. 1997/1729 and S.I. 1997/2074."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    }
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      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/539/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:37.362131+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."
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