In this Act—

• “animal” means a vertebrate (other than a human) or an invertebrate,

• “carcase” means the carcase of an animal and includes part of a carcase, and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hooves, offal or other part of an animal, separately or otherwise, or any portion of such a thing,

• “constable” has the meaning given by section 99(1) of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012,

• “cover” means a place above ground in which a wild mammal may be concealed from sight, but does not include an enclosed place from which a wild mammal could not be flushed,

• “deprivation order” has the meaning given by section 21(1),

• “disqualification order” has the meaning given by section 22(1),

• “hunting” is to be construed in accordance with section 1(3),

• “livestock” means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, camelids, ratites, farmed deer, enclosed game birds or poultry, and for the purposes of this definition—

  1. a

     “cattle” means bulls, cows, oxen, buffalo, heifers or calves,

  2. b

     “horses” includes donkeys and mules,

  3. c

     “farmed deer” means deer of any species which are on agricultural land enclosed by a deer-proof barrier and kept by way of business for the primary purpose of meat production,

  4. d

     “enclosed game birds” means any pheasant, partridge, grouse (or moor game), black (or heath) game or ptarmigan that are being kept enclosed prior to their release for sporting purposes,

  5. e

     “poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, geese or ducks,

• “premises” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of the schedule,

• “relevant authority” has the meaning given by section 4(6),

• “responsible for”, in relation to a dog, is to be construed in accordance with section 2(6),

• “seizure order” has the meaning given by section 23(1),

• “under control”, in relation to a dog, means that a person who is responsible for the dog is able to direct the dog’s activity by physical contact or verbal or audible command,

• “veterinary surgeon” means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons, or the supplementary veterinary register, kept under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966,

• “wild mammal” has the meaning given by section 1(3),

• “woodland” means land on which trees are grown, whether or not commercially, and includes any such trees and any vegetation planted or growing naturally among such trees on that land.