Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
c. 3749
Part I
- management of livestock up to the point of slaughter or export from Great Britain), forestry, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the preparation of land for agricultural use, and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly;
- “the Agriculture Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State and, in the case of anything falling to be done by the Agriculture Ministers, means those Ministers acting jointly;
- “agricultural health and safety regulations” has the meaning assigned by section 30(1);
- “agricultural licence” means a licence of the Agriculture Ministers or either of them under any of the relevant statutory provisions;
- “agricultural operation” does not include an agricultural operation performed otherwise than in the course of a trade, business or other undertaking (whether carried on for profit or not) but, subject to subsection (2) below, includes any operation incidental to agriculture which is performed in the course of such a trade, business or undertaking;
- “the appropriate Agriculture Minister” means, for the purpose of the application of any of the relevant statutory provisions to England and Wales, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and, for the purpose of the application of any of those provisions to Scotland, the Secretary of State;
- “article for use at work” means—
- (a) any plant designed for use or operation (whether exclusively or not) by persons at work, and
- (b) any article designed for use as a component in any such plant;
- “code of practice” (without prejudice to section 16(8)) includes a standard, a specification and any other documentary form of practical guidance;
- “the Commission” has the meaning assigned by section 10(2);
- “conditional sale agreement” means an agreement for the sale of goods under which the purchase price or part of it is payable by instalments, and the property in the goods is to remain in the seller (notwithstanding that the buyer is to be in possession of the goods)
