Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 19813;

“avian influenza” means an infection of poultry or other captive birds caused by any influenza A virus of the subtypes H5 or H7 or with an intravenous pathogenicity index in six week old chickens greater than 1.2;

“the Directive” means Council Directive 2005/94/EC on Community measures for the control of avian influenza and repealing Directive 92/40/EEC4;

“emergency vaccination notice” has the meaning given by regulation 6(1)(b);

“emergency vaccination plan” has the same meaning as it has in Article 53 of the Directive;

“emergency vaccination zone” has the meaning given by regulation 6(1)(a);

“inspector” means an inspector appointed by the Secretary of State or a local authority for the purposes of these Regulations or under the Act, and, unless the context otherwise requires, includes a veterinary inspector;

“local authority” means—

(a)

in any part of England where there is, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 19945, a unitary authority for that local government area, that authority;

(b)

where there is not a unitary authority—

  1. (i)

    in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;

  2. (ii)

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

  3. (iii)

    in each London borough, the council of that borough;

  4. (iv)

    in the city of London, the Common Council;

“occupier” means, in relation to any premises, the person in charge of those premises;

“other captive bird” means a bird kept in captivity that is not poultry and includes a pet bird and a bird kept for shows, races, exhibitions, competitions, breeding or for sale;

“poultry” means all birds that are reared or kept in captivity for the production of meat or eggs for consumption, the production of other products, for restocking supplies of game or for the purposes of any breeding programme for the production of these categories of birds;

“premises” includes any land, building or place;

“preventive vaccination notice” has the meaning given by regulation 7(1)(b)(ii);

“preventive vaccination plan” has the same meaning as it has in Article 56 of the Directive;

“preventive vaccination zone” has the meaning given by regulation 7(1)(b)(i);

“slaughterhouse” means an establishment used for slaughtering poultry, the meat of which is intended for human consumption;

“vaccination licence” has the meaning given by regulation 7(1)(a);

“vaccination notice” means either an emergency vaccination notice or a preventive vaccination notice;

“vaccination plan” means either an emergency vaccination plan or a preventive vaccination plan;

“vaccination zone” means either an emergency vaccination zone or a preventive vaccination zone;

“veterinary inspector” means a person appointed as such by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations or under the Act.

(2)

Other expressions used in these Regulations that are defined in the Directive have the same meaning as they have in the Directive.