{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-at-markets-order-1990/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-at-markets-order-1990/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals at Markets Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-at-markets-order-1990",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;\n“animals” means cattle, sheep, goats and all other ruminating animals, pigs, rabbits and poultry;\n“appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;\n“calf” means a bovine animal under the age of six months;\n“cattle” means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves;\n“inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of the Act by the Minister or by a local authority and, when used in relation to a person appointed by the Minister, includes a veterinary inspector;\n“market” means a market place or sale-yard or any other premises or place to which animals are brought from other places and exposed for sale and includes any lairage adjoining a market and used in connection with it and any place adjoining a market used as a parking area by visitors to the market for parking vehicles;\n“market authority” means the local authority or other person responsible for the upkeep of a market or for the provision of fixed facilities there;\n“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“poultry” means live birds of the following species, that is to say, domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea-fowls, pheasants, partridges and quails;\n“unfit” includes infirm, diseased, ill, injured and fatigued;\n“vehicle” means any vehicle (including a trailer of any description and the detachable body of a vehicle) constructed or adapted for use on a road;\n“veterinary inspector” means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Minister.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to a numbered article is a reference to the article bearing that number in this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2628/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:53:52.737521+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."
}