In this Order—

• “animal” means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, sheep and swine;

• “collecting centre” means premises used for the intermediate reception of animals intended to be moved elsewhere and includes any place used, whether as a market or otherwise, for the sale or trading of animals but only where the animals being sold or traded are intended for immediate slaughter thereafter;

• “CPH number” means the county parish holding number assigned from time to time to any premises or part of any premises by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;

• “farm” means any holding on which pigs are kept for the purpose of breeding or fattening them;

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

• “identification mark” means a mark complying with article 5;

• “identification number of the holding” means the numeric code which is allotted to the holding by the Secretary of State;

• “keeper” means any person having care and control of pigs even on a temporary basis but not including any person who is only a keeper because he is transporting the animals;

• “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;

• “slaughterhouse” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 19952; and

• “sole occupancy group” has the meaning given in the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 20023.

It shall be sufficient compliance with any provision of this Order requiring or permitting the making of an application, the issue of a licence, notice or authority, the depositing of a document or the sending or giving of a document to effect this by means of a facsimile transmission service.