PART 1Introduction

Interpretation2.

(1)

In this Order—

“authorised veterinary inspector” means the veterinary inspector authorised by the Scottish Ministers to receive information about horses or carcases infected or suspected of being infected with African horse sickness virus for the area concerned;

“carcase” means carcase of a horse;

“Chief Veterinary Officer” means the Chief Veterinary Officer for Scotland;

“contact premises” means premises that have an epidemiological connection with infected premises, including those that due to their proximity to infected premises the Chief Veterinary Officer considers have an epidemiological connection with infected premises;

“the Directive” means Council Directive 92/35/EEC on laying down control rules and measures to combat African horse sickness4;
“equipment” means, except in article 28(3)(a), any equipment that may have been in contact with blood or other bodily fluids from a horse, including needles and surgical or dental equipment, unless that equipment has either been sterilised following such contact or is securely confined in a sharps container complying with British Standard 73205 (or equivalent standard);

“genetic material” means any semen, ovum or embryo of a horse;

“horse” means any animal of the family Equidae and includes hybrids of those animals;

“infected premises” means premises that have been declared to be infected premises under article 9(8) or 10(7);

“main occupier”, in relation to premises, means the person who has overall responsibility of the premises;

“occupier”, in relation to premises, includes any person who has ownership or charge of a horse on the premises;

“premises” includes any place;

“suspect premises” means premises that have been designated as suspect premises under article 8(2); and

“vector” means an insect of the genus Culicoides or any other species of arthropod capable of transmitting African horse sickness virus.

(2)

In this Order, a reference to a notified horse or carcase is a reference to a horse or carcase (as the case may be) which is the subject of a notification given under article 5.

(3)

Any reference in this Order to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication, within the meaning of section 15 of the Electronic Communications Act 20006 which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.