The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“approved disinfectant” means a disinfectant listed as approved in the case of Swine Vesicular Disease in Schedule 1 to the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978(1) and “disinfect” means disinfect with an approved disinfectant;

“collecting centre” has the meaning assigned to it in article 11 below;

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

“identification mark” means a mark complying with paragraph (1) or (3)(b) of article 5;

“identification number of the holding” means the numeric code which is allotted to the holding by the appropriate Minister;

“livestock” means cattle, sheep, pigs and goats;

“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” means, in relation to England and Wales, a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard as defined in section 34 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974(2) and, in relation to Scotland, a slaughterhouse as defined in section 22 of the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980(3);

“waste food” means—

(a)

any meat, bones, blood, offal or other part of the carcase of any livestock or of any poultry, or product derived therefrom or hatchery waste or eggs or egg shells; or

(b)

any broken or waste foodstuffs (including table or kitchen refuse scraps or waste) which contain or have been in contact with any meat, bones, blood, offal or with any other part of the carcase of any livestock or of any poultry;

• but does not include meal manufactured from protein originating from livestock or poultry.

(2) In this Order “holding” and other expressions which appear in the Order and in Council Directive 92/102/EEC on the identification and registration of animals(4) shall bear the meaning they have in that directive.

(3) 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, approval, authority or authorisation, the depositing of a document or the sending or giving of a document to effect this by means of a facsimile transmission service.

(1)

S.I. 1978/32. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/934, S.I. 1994/2965 and S.I. 1994/3141.

(2)

1974 c. 3.

(3)

1980 c. 13. The definition of “slaughterhouse” in section 22 was amended by section 59(1) of, and paragraph 24(b) of Schedule 3 to, the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16).

(4)

OJ No. L355, 5.12.92, p. 32.