Article 2 General interpretation

“ammunition” has the same meaning as in the Firearms (Northern Ireland) OrderF1 2004;

“Committee for Nature Conservation” means the Committee established under Article 5 of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;

“deer”, except where otherwise provided, means deer of any species and their hybrids, and includes those on enclosed land where deer not in the wild state are usually kept;

“the Department” means the Department of the Environment;

“destroy”, in relation to an egg, includes doing anything to the egg which is calculated to prevent it from hatching;

“firearm” has the same meaning as in the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004;

“game” means any hare or game-bird and includes deer;

“game-bird” means any pheasant, partridge (including chukar partridge and red-legged partridge), woodcock, snipe or red grouse;

F2“inland waters” has the meaning given in Article 2(2) of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006;

“pick”, in relation to a plant, means gather or pluck any part of the plant without uprooting it;

“poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea-fowls, pigeons and quails;

“sale” includes barter and exchange, and any other transaction by which anything is disposed of for value;

“uproot”, in relation to a plant, means dig up or otherwise remove the plant with its roots from the land on which it is growing;

“vehicle” includes any aircraft, hovercraft and boat;

“veterinary practitioner” means a person who is for the time being registered in the supplementary veterinary register;

“veterinary surgeon” means a person who is for the time being registered in the register of veterinary surgeons;

“wild animal” means, subject to paragraph (3), any animal (other than a bird) which is or (before it was killed or taken) was living wild;

“wild bird” means, subject to paragraph (4), any bird of a F3species which is ordinarily resident in or is a visitor to F4the United Kingdom or the European territory of any Member State in a wild state but does not include poultry F5or any game bird;

“wild plant” means any plant F6(including fungi) which is or (before it was picked, removed, uprooted or destroyed) was growing wild and is of a kind which ordinarily grows in Northern Ireland in a wild state.