The Welfare of Horses at Markets (and Other Places of Sale) Order 1990

Interpretation

3.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;

“animals” means cattle, sheep, goats and all other ruminating animals, pigs, horses, ponies, asses, hinnies and mules;

“appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;

“foal” means a horse under the age of four months;

“highway” includes a road or lane and any place over which members of the public have a right to pass or repass with or without vehicles;

“horse” means a horse, pony, ass, hinny or mule;

“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;

“mare” includes a female horse in foal for the first time;

“market” means a market place, sale-yard, fairground, highway, or any other premises or place to which horses 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;

“market authority” means the local authority or other person responsible for the upkeep of a market or for the provision of fixed facilities there;

“market operator” means the person for the time being responsible for managing the reception or the sale of horses in a market;

“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;

“pen” includes box or stall;

“unfit” includes infirm, diseased, ill, injured and fatigued;

“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;

“veterinary inspector” means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Minister.

(2) Any reference in this Order to a numbered article is a reference to the article bearing that number in this Order.