S.L. 36.40 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -"breeding stock" means a collection of poultry reared on a farm with an aim of commercially reproducing particular species or varieties thereof; "Director" means the Director responsible for the veterinary service and includes any officer of the department duly authorised by the Director to act on his behalf;

"approved disinfectant" means such disinfectant as is approved by the Director and appearing in the Second Schedule to these Regulations, or any other disinfectant that the Director may approve for a specific need; "poultry chick" means the young offspring of poultry being under three days old and weighing under 185 grams and that has not been fed;

"flock" means a collection of living poultry of the same health and immunity status, reared on the same premises or in the same enclosure and constituting a single zootechnical unit; "licensee" means a husbandryman who is licensed in terms of the rules in the First Schedule to these Regulations to keep a poultry house for the breeding of poultry; "parent stock flock" means poultry kept for the production of commercial hatching eggs; "poultry house" means a house or shelter for poultry which is licensed in terms of the rules in the First Schedule to these Regulations for the keeping of breeding stock by a licensee;

"notifiable disease" means a disease listed in the Third Schedule to these Regulations;

"farm" means a breeding stock farm made up of one or more poultry houses together with all their annexes as specified in these Regulations in which poultry breeding stock are reared; "breed" means to rear poultry stock of different kinds particularly by mingling or crossing one species or variety thereof with another, and includes the keeping, rearing, fattening and selling of poultry and broodstock;

"poultry" means fowl, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quails, pigeon, pheasants and partridges.