Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“aircraft” includes any kind of craft which may be used for the conveyance of animals by air;

“animal” means any mammal (other than man) or bird and includes any other living creature that is prescribed as an animal for the purposes of this Act or that falls within a class of animals that is prescribed for those purposes;

“authorised examiner” means any person who has been designated as such under section 3(3) and includes an authorised officer;

“authorised officer” means a person appointed as such under section 3(2);

“building” includes any house, hut, shed, tent, stable or enclosure, whether roofed or not, used for sheltering or confining any animal and any pen, cage, wall, gate, pillar, post, paling, frame, boarding, fence, platform, roadway, path, steps, staging, slip, wharf, dock, piles, jetty, landing stage or bridge, or any structure connected with the foregoing;

“carcase” means the dead body of an animal and includes any part thereof and the meat, bones (whether whole, broken or ground), offal,

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hide, skin, wool, hair, feathers, hoof, horns or other part of an animal, separately or otherwise or any portion thereof;

“contact” means any animal which has by contact, direct or indirect, with a diseased animal or been exposed to the risk of contracting a disease;

“conveyance” means any aircraft, vessel or vehicle and includes any other thing used for or is capable of conveying or moving persons, animals or animal materials;

“Director” means the Director of Agriculture and Agrifood;

“disease” includes any animal disease that is infectious or contagious amongst animals and includes any other disease which the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare to be a disease for the purpose of this Act;

“examine”, in relation to any animal or the carcase thereof, means to carry out in respect of such animal or carcase, such manner of inspection, examination and test as may be necessary for the purposes of determining whether the animal or carcase thereof is infected with any disease;

“export” means to take or cause to be taken out of Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air;

“fodder” means any substance used for food of animals;

“import” includes the importation into Brunei Darussalam of goods in transit and goods which are to be transhipped;

“infected” means infected with any disease;

“master” means the captain of any ship or aircraft and includes any person for the time being in charge of any ship (other than a pilot) or aircraft;

“Minister” means the Minister of Primary Resources and Tourism;

“occupier” when used in relation to a place includes a tenant, licensee, manager, agent, superintendent, overseer of any place and, includes the person in charge of or in apparent control of the place;

“officer of customs” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the

Customs Order, 2006 (S 39/2006);

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“owner” includes any person for the time being in charge of any animal and any person for the time being in occupation of any building;

“port” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Maritime and Port

Authority of Brunei Darussalam Act (Chapter 222);

“quarantine” means the compulsory detention in isolation of any animal or thing;

“quarantine station” means any building or place where quarantine is carried out, and includes an examination station or hulk;

“sea” includes inland water;

“tranship” means to remove any goods imported from the vehicle, aircraft or ship in which they were imported and either return them to the same vehicle, aircraft or ship or transfer them to another vehicle, aircraft or ship before being exported, whether such goods are to be transferred directly between such vehicles, aircraft or ships or whether they are to be landed in Brunei Darussalam after their importation and kept at any place pending exportation;

“veterinary biologics” means any virus, serum, toxin, and analogous product of natural or synthetic origin, including genetically modified organisms, diagnostics, antitoxins, vaccines, live micro-organisms, killed micro-organisms, and the antigenic or immunising component of micro-organisms intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases of animals, or for purposes of research in animals;

“veterinary centre” means any premises used for the purpose of providing any of the following services to members of the public —