The New Forest (Confirmation of the Byelaws of the Verderers of the New Forest) Order 2003

1.  In these byelaws, unless the context otherwise requires —

“agister” means a person who is for the time being employed as an agister by the Verderers;

“appropriate payment” means the appropriate payment fixed by the Verderers in accordance with section 23(3) of the New Forest Act 1877 as varied by these Byelaws;

“cattle” means bovine animal and includes bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer and calf;

“commoner” means a person owning animals entitled to be in the Forest;

“Divisional Veterinary Manager” means the veterinary inspector appointed for the time being by the Secretary of State to receive information about animals and carcasses affected with or suspected of being affected with specified diseases for the area in which such an animal or carcass is;

“the Forest” means the New Forest as defined in section 3 of the New Forest Act 1877 as read with section 1 of the New Forest Act 1964(1);

“horse” means equine animal and includes pony, donkey and mule;

“marked” means, in relation to any year, marked by any method of identification approved by the Verderers for that year;

“notifiable disease” means a disease required to be notified under section 15 of the Animal Health Act 1981(2) or by any order made under that provision;

“pig” means porcine animal and includes boar, sow or piglet;

“sheep” means ovine animal and includes ram, ewe or lamb;

“Verderers” means Verderers of the New Forest and includes their duly authorised servants or agents except in byelaws 2, 4, 9(1), 12, 17, 18, 21(5) and 21(7).

(1)

1964 c. 83.

(2)

1981 c. 22.