The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1991

means a bovine animal which is affected with the disease;

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

includes pet food;

means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum;

means a market, fairground, sale-yard or any other place where bovine animals are commonly exposed for sale;

includes land;

means any protein material which is derived from a carcase but does not include milk or any milk product or dicalcium bone phosphate;

means an establishment carrying out research into the disease;

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 brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal over six months of age which has died or has been slaughtered, as the case may be, in the United Kingdom;

means a bovine animal which is suspected of being affected with the disease;

means the Animal Health Act 1981;

means bovine spongiform encephalopathy;

means the veterinary inspector appointed for the time being by the Minister to receive information about affected or suspected animals, or the carcases of such animals, for the area in which such animals or carcases are;

means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or in the supplementary veterinary register.