{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgery-epidural-anaesthesia-order-1992/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgery-epidural-anaesthesia-order-1992/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Surgery (Epidural Anaesthesia) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgery-epidural-anaesthesia-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Title and commencement",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966;\n“approved” means approved for the time being by the Minister, by the Secretary of State or by the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, as the case may be;\n“embryo” means the initial stage of development of a domestic animal of the bovine species while it is capable of being transferred to a recipient dam;\n“embryo collection” means the collection of embryos from donor animals;\n“embryo collection or embryo transfer team” means an approved group of technicians supervised by a team veterinarian competent to perform the collection, processing and storage, or the transfer of embryos;\n“embryo transfer” means the transfer of embryos into recipients;\n“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“qualified person” means a person who is registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or the supplementary veterinary register;\n“team veterinarian” means a qualified person who is the veterinarian responsible for the supervision of an embryo collection or embryo transfer team.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/696/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:18.961009+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."
}