3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

(1)  In these regulations –

Act means the Biosecurity Act 2019 ;

animal fitting includes –

(a) any box, stall, cage, enclosure, tank, pen, hive, water, or other thing, that has been used for containing an animal; and

(b) any harness, saddlery, rope, net, aquarium pump, bucket, trough, bedding, utensil, implement, equipment, or other thing, that has been used in the transportation, capture, breeding, feeding, handling or keeping of an animal or animal product;

animal food business means a business, enterprise or activity that consists, in whole or in part, of the commercial manufacturing, production or wholesale supply of animal food;

artificial breeding of an animal means –

(a) the artificial insemination of an animal; and

(b) the implantation of an embryo in a recipient animal; and

(c) the collection, processing, handling, storing, sale or distribution of semen, ova or embryos for a purpose specified in paragraph (a) or (b) ;

bag includes a box or other form of packaging;

commercially sterile, in relation to animal food, means animal food that is free from any living organisms that are capable of growing in, or on, the animal food in the conditions to which the animal food is likely to be subjected during its storage and distribution;

declared disease – see regulation 4 ;

declared pest – see regulation 4 ;

declared weed – see ;