Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “approved premises” means premises approved for the purposes of article 10;

• “appropriate veterinary authority” means the central authority of a territory empowered to carry out veterinary checks, or any authority in that territory to which it has delegated such powers;

• “class I specified risk material” means—

  1. (a)

     class I specified bovine material; and

  2. (b)

     class I specified sheep or goat material,

  but does not include material derived from animals which—

  1. (i)

     were slaughtered or died outside the United Kingdom before 1st January 1998; or

  2. (ii)

     were born, reared and slaughtered in Australia or New Zealand;

• “class II specified risk material” means—

  1. (a)

     class II specified bovine material;

  2. (b)

     class II specified sheep or goat material;

  3. (c)

     any part of the animal remaining attached to class I or II specified bovine material or class I or II specified sheep or goat material after dissection of the carcase;

  4. (d)

     any animal material which comes into contact with class I or II specified bovine material or class I or II specified sheep or goat material after it has been removed from the carcase; and

  5. (e)

     specified solid waste;

• “feeding stuff” has the meaning given to it by section 66(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970^f1, save that it shall apply to products and substances for oral feeding to any creature except a human being, and section 66(2)(b) of that Act shall have effect for the purposes of this Order as it does for the purposes of that Act;

• “food” has the same meaning as in the Food Safety Act 1990^f2;

• “intestines” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum and anal sphincter;

• “specified bovine material” has the meaning given in article 4;

• “specified risk material” means class I specified risk material and class II specified risk material;

• “specified sheep or goat material” has the meaning given in article 3;

• “specified solid waste” means any solid matter resulting from the slaughter of bovine animals, sheep or goats, or from the subsequent processing of their carcases, which is collected in any part of the drainage system draining any place where specified bovine or sheep or goat material is handled; and

• “UK specified risk material” means specified risk material derived from an animal which has died or was slaughtered in the United Kingdom.

For the purposes of this Order the supply of specified risk material, feeding stuffs or cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical products otherwise than by sale at, in or from any place where specified risk material, feeding stuffs or cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical products are supplied in the course of a business, shall be deemed to be a sale, and “sell” includes have in possession for or offer or expose for sale.

For the purposes of this Order material shall be treated as a cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product whether it is used or intended for use as such by itself or as an ingredient or additive in something which is so used or intended for such use.

Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Order to articles and Schedules are to articles of and Schedules to this Order.