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Sch. 4

Provisions applied	Modifications
	(d) in subsection (6), references to the Secretary of State shall be read as references to the appropriate Agriculture Minister.
3. Section 16 (approval of codes of practice).	(a) In subsection (1), the reference to health and safety regulations shall be read as a reference to agricultural health and safety regulations and the words from “and except” to “agricultural operations” shall be omitted, but so that the section shall confer power to approve or issue codes of practice for any provision mentioned in section 16(1) only for the purposes of the application of that provision to matters relating exclusively to the relevant agricultural purposes; (b) a code of practice may either be approved for Great Britain and be so approved by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly, or be approved for England and Wales only and be so approved by that Minister or be approved for Scotland only and be so approved by the Secretary of State, and the references to the Commission shall accordingly be read as references to the Agriculture Ministers or the said Minister or the Secretary of State as the case may require; (c) for subsection (2) there shall be substituted— “(2) Before approving a code of practice under subsection (1) above the Minister or Ministers proposing to do so shall consult the Commission and any other body that appears to him or them to be appropriate.”; (d) for subsection (5) there shall be substituted— “(5) The authority by whom a code of practice has been approved under this section may at any time withdraw approval from that code, but before doing so shall consult the same bodies as the authority would be required to consult under subsection (2) above if the authority were proposing to approve the code.”