Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations –

• “animals” means animals of the classes Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, and Insecta and any other multi cellular organism that is not a plant or a fungus and “animals of wild species” means animals not normally domesticated in the United Kingdom;

• “Department” means the Department of the Environment;

• “keeper” includes any person employed under the direction of a keeper;

• “premises” includes land;

• “section of a zoo” means a particular part of the zoo premises, animals of a particular description, or animals of a particular description which are kept in a particular part of the zoo premises, and references to the closure of a section of a zoo to the public mean the closure to the public of a particular part of the zoo premises, ceasing to exhibit animals of a particular description to the public, or ceasing to exhibit animals of a particular description to the public in a particular part of the zoo premises;

• “taxonomic category” means a group or assemblage of species recognised as an entity in scientific classification;

• “zoo” has the meaning assigned by regulation 3(2);

• “zoo closure direction” has the meaning assigned by regulation 18(1).

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954^f1 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.