Chapter:	139	Title:	PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 202 of 2008
Section:	2	Heading:	Interpretation	Version Date:	14/07/2008

(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"animals" (動物) means cattle, sheep, goats, all other ruminating animals, swine, equines, and all other warm-blooded vertebrates except man and birds, and reptiles; (Replaced 24 of 1950 Schedule. Amended 25 of 1960 s. 2)
"authorized landing place" (特准登岸處) means any place declared by this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder to be an authorized landing place and any other place declared by the Director and notified in the Gazette to be a landing place; (Amended 17 of 1956 s. 2)
"birds" (禽鳥) means poultry and all other birds; (Amended 25 of 1960 s. 2)
"carcass" (屠體、屍體) means the carcass of an animal or bird, and includes part of a carcass and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal or other part of an animal or bird, separately or otherwise, or any portion thereof;
"cattle" (牛隻) includes bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves and buffaloes;
"dairy" (奶場) includes any farm, cowshed, milk store or other place from which milk is supplied on or for sale or in which milk is kept or used for purposes of sale or manufacture into butter, cheese, dried milk or condensed milk for sale and, in the case of a purveyor of milk who does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes the place where he keeps the vessels used by him for the sale of milk, but does not include a shop from which milk is supplied only in the properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the shop, or a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only; (Added 17 of 1956 s. 3)
"Director" (署長) means the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation and any Assistant Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation; (Replaced 4 of 1967 s. 3. Amended L.N. 331 of 1999)
"disease" (疾病) includes cattle plague or rinderpest, septicaemia haemorrhagica, pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab, swine fever, anthrax, glanders (including farcy), parasitic mange, epizootic lymphangitis, ulcerative cellulitis, dourine, sarcoptic mange, influenza, ringworm, strangles, anaplasmosis, fowl cholera, fowl-pox, contagious bovine abortion, surra, red water (Texas fever), buffalo disease, tuberculosis, Newcastle disease of poultry and any other disease declared by the Director and notified in the Gazette as included in the term disease for the purposes of this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder; (Amended G.N. 129 of 1936; G.N.A. 143 of 1950; 24 of 1950 Schedule; 17 of 1956 s. 2; 71 of 1992 s. 57)
"equines" (馬科動物、馬匹) includes horses, asses, mules and all other equine animals;
"fodder" (飼料) means grass or other substance commonly used for the food of animals;
"health officer" (衞生主任) means the Director of Health, the Deputy Director of Health, any Assistant Director of Health, any person appointed by the Chief Executive to be a health officer, any person for the time being performing the duties of a health officer and includes a public officer authorized under section 17A; (Added 25 of 1960 s. 2. Amended L.N. 76 of 1989; 65 of 1999 s. 3; 78 of 1999 s. 7)
"inspector" (督察) means any person appointed as an inspector under section 17; (Added 25 of 1960 s. 2)
"litter" (墊料) means straw or other substance commonly used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals;
"milk" (奶、奶類) includes cream and skimmed and separated milk; (Added 17 of 1956 s. 3)
"poultry" (家禽) includes domestic fowls, turkeys, ducks, pigeons and geese;
"segregation place" (分隔地點) means any place appointed by the Director to be a place where animals or birds may be confined and isolated in order to prevent or mitigate disease or the spread of disease, and also means the Government depots; (Amended 17 of 1956 s. 2)
"senior veterinary officer" (高級獸醫官) includes any veterinary officer and assistant veterinary officer authorized by the Director to perform the duties of a senior veterinary officer under this Ordinance; (Replaced 17 of 1956 s. 3)
"special permit" (特別許可證) means a written permission granted by and in the discretion of the senior veterinary officer;
"wild animals" (野生動物) means all animals other than those classed at common law as domestic; (Added 4 of 1967 s. 3)
"wild birds" (野生禽鳥) means all birds other than poultry and those kept principally or solely as pets. (Added 4 of 1967 s. 3)
(2) Other words and expressions used in this Ordinance shall bear the same meanings as they have in the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap 599). (Amended 14 of 2008 s. 18)