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2.—(1) 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).
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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