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.