In these Regulations —

• “cattle” (“gwartheg”) means bovine animals including the species bison bison and bubalus bubalis;

• “holding” (“daliad”) means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open-air farm, any place, in which cattle are held, kept or handled;

• “identity” (“dull adnabod”) means, in relation to cattle, the ear tag or tattoo number given in accordance with —

  1. (a)

     the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995 M1,

  2. (b)

     the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990 M2,

  3. (c)

     the Tuberculosis (England and Wales) Order 1984 M3,

  4. (d)

     (for animals in Wales which were identified in Scotland) the Tuberculosis (Scotland) Order 1984 M4, or

  5. (e)

     (for animals identified under any of those instruments and re-identified under the Cattle Identification Regulations 1998 M5) the Cattle Identification Regulations 1998.

• “inspector” (“arolygydd”) means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations by the National Assembly or by a local authority;

• “keeper” (“ceidwad”) means any person responsible for animals, whether on a permanent or on a temporary basis, including during transportation or at a market but does not include any person who is only a keeper because he is transporting the animals;

• “local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means in respect of a county or a county borough, the council of that county or county borough;

• “National Assembly” (“Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;

• F1“notifiable bovine animal” means a bovine animal over 30 months of age which—

  1. (a)

     dies on any farm or in transport; or

  2. (b)

     has been killed otherwise than for human consumption;

• “Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000” (“Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 1760/2000”) means Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 820/97 M6.