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Section 7 Interpretation of Part I.

In this Part—

  • “agricultural land” means land used for agriculture (within the meaning of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 1949 c.2) or for the breedingF1, keeping or selling of livestock within the meaning of this Act, being land which is so used for the purposes of a trade or business; and

  • “livestock” means any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for use in the farming of land or for such purpose as the Ministry may by order, subject to negative resolution, specify.

  • F2“selling” includes exposing for sale and accommodating before or after selling

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1994 NI 6

F2

1994 NI 6

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (prosp.) by Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 16), ss. 57(2), 59, Sch. 5 (with ss. 1(2), 52(1), 53, 54) and the repeal being partly in operation, as to which see individual sections