The Salmonella in Laying Flocks (Survey Powers) (England) Regulations 2004

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“authorised officer” means a person appointed by a local authority for the purpose of enforcing these Regulations;

“the Commission Decision” means Commission Decision 2004/665/EC dated 22 September 2004 concerning a baseline study on the prevalence of Salmonella in laying flocks of Gallus gallus;

“faecal and environmental material” means faeces, moist litter, dust and dusty material and any other material which the Technical Specifications require to be sampled;

“inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purpose of these Regulations by the Secretary of State;

“laying hen” means any bird of the species Gallus gallus that produces eggs for human consumption;

“local authority” means:

(a)

in any part of England where there is, within the meaning of Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(1), a unitary authority for that local government area, that authority;

(b)

where there is not a unitary authority—

(i)

in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;

(ii)

in a non-metropolitan county, the council of that county; or

(iii)

in each London borough, the council of that borough;

(c)

in the city of London, the Common Council;

“premises” includes land with or without buildings but does not include any place used only as a dwelling; and

“the Technical Specifications” mean those technical specifications referred to at Article 5 of the Commission Decision as having been presented to the European Commission’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 15^th July 2004 and which are entitled “Baseline Study on the Prevalence of Salmonella in Laying Flocks of Gallus gallus in the EU – Technical Specifications”.

(1)

S.I. 1994/867 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.