The Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990

means, in relation to England, the Minister, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;

means an identification made in a manner approved by the appropriate Minister identifying the individual animal;

means a bull, cow, steer, heifer or calf;

means any bovine animals which are kept for milk production;

means the female parent of a calf whether or not the calf was the product of an implanted ovum or embryo and excludes a female bovine animal from which the ovum or embryo has been taken;

means a mark placed on a bovine animal or bovine animals to distinguish it or them, as the case may be, from other bovine animals;

means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of the Act by the Minister or by a local authority, and, when used in relation to an officer of the Ministry, includes a veterinary inspector;

includes land with or without buildings but does not include any part ofany premises used for the temporary detention of animals as a market, sale-yard, fairground, slaughterhouse lair or place of exhibition;

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

means the Animal Health Act 1981;

means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Minister.