The Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995

Interpretation

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

“the 1990 Order” means the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990(1).

“bovine animal” means a domestic animal of the bovine species (including bubalus bubalis);

“dam” means the female parent of a calf whether or not the calf was the product of an implanted ovum or embryo and excludes a female bovine animal from which the ovum or embryo has been taken;

“dairy herd” means a herd kept for milk production;

“the Directive” means Council Directive 92/102/EEC on the identification and registration of animals(2) to the extent that it applies to animals of the bovine species;

“ear tag number” means the particulars comprised in an ear tag pursuant to article 8(3) or article 9(1);

“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement other than the United Kingdom but until the EEA Agreement comes into force in relation to Liechtenstein does not include the State of Liechtenstein; and “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;

“farm” means any holding on which bovine animals are kept for the purpose of breeding, raising or fattening them;

“herd” means a number of bovine animals which the Minister is satisfied are managed together as a herd;

“herd mark” means the alphanumeric code which is allotted to a herd by the Minister;

“holding” means any establishment, construction, or, in the case of an open-air farm, any place in which bovine animals are held, kept or handled;

“identification number of the holding” means the numeric code which is allotted to the holding by the appropriate Minister;

“market” means a market place or sale-yard or any other premises or place to which animals are brought from other places and exposed for sale; and includes any place adjoining those premises used by visitors to the market for parking vehicles and any lairage adjoining a market and used in connection with it;

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

“premises” includes land with or without buildings thereon and any market, saleyard, fairground, place of exhibition or lair; and

“slaughterhouse” means, in relation to England and Wales, a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard as defined in section 34 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974(3) and, in relation to Scotland, a slaughterhouse as defined in section 22 of the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980(4).

(2) In this Order “ear tag”, save where the context otherwise requires, means an ear tag of a pattern approved by the Minister for the purposes of this Order; and

(a) in article 5 (other than paragraph (2)(b)) and in articles 10, 12, 14 and 15 references to ear tags include references to ear tags attached in accordance with the provisions of the Directive under the laws of a member State other than the United Kingdom or EEA State; and

(b) in article 5 (other than paragraph (2)(b)) and in article 14 references to ear tags also include references to identification marks applied to bovine animals in a country outside the United Kingdom otherwise than in accordance with the Directive.

(1)

S.I. 1990/1867 as amended by S.I. 1993/503.

(2)

O.J. No. L355, 5.12.92, p.32.

(3)

1974 c. 3.

(4)

1980 c. 13. The definition of “slaughterhouse” in section 22 was amended by section 59(1) of, and paragraph 24(b) of Schedule 3 to, the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16).