art 2 Interpretation
(1) In this Order— “animal” means cattle (excluding bison and yak), deer, goats, sheep and swine; “collecting centre” means premises used for the intermediate reception of animals intended to be moved elsewhere and includes any place used, whether as a market or otherwise, for the sale or trading of animals but only where the animals being sold or traded are intended for immediate slaughter thereafter; “ CPH number” means the county parish holding number assigned from time to time to any premises or part of any premises by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; “farm” means any holding on which pigs are kept for the purpose of breeding or fattening them; “holding” means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open air farm, any place in which animals are held, kept or handled; “identification mark” means a mark complying with article 5; “identification number of the holding” means the numeric code which is allotted to the holding by the Secretary of State; “keeper” means any person having care and control of pigs even on a temporary basis but not including any person who is only a keeper because he is transporting the animals; “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” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995 ; and “sole occupancy group” has the meaning given in the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 2002 . (2) 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 or authority, the depositing of a document or the sending or giving of a document to effect this by means of a facsimile transmission service.