52c. 37
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Part I
- “prohibition notice” means a notice under section 22;
- “the relevant agricultural purposes” means the following purposes, that is to say—
- (a) securing the health, safety and welfare at work of persons engaged in agricultural operations,
- (b) protecting persons other than persons so engaged against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities at work of persons so engaged;
- and the reference in paragraph (b) above to the risks there mentioned shall be construed in accordance with section 1(3);
- “the relevant statutory provisions” means—
- (a) the provisions of this Part and of any health and safety regulations and agricultural health and safety regulations; and
- (b) the existing statutory provisions;
- “self-employed person” means an individual who works for gain or reward otherwise than under a contract of employment, whether or not he himself employs others;
- “substance” means any natural or artificial substance, whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour;
- “substance for use at work” means any substance intended for use (whether exclusively or not) by persons at work;
- “supply”, where the reference is to supplying articles or substances, means supplying them by way of sale, lease, hire or hire-purchase, whether as principal or agent for another.
(2) In determining in any particular case whether an operation is incidental to agriculture within the meaning of the definition of "agricultural operation in the preceding subsection, regard shall be had to the magnitude of the operation and to the scale on which it is performed as well as to all other relevant circumstances.
(3) Provision may be made by order for directing that for the purposes of this Part any activity or operation specified in the order which would or would not otherwise be agriculture within the meaning of this Part shall be treated as not being or, as the case may be, being agriculture for those purposes.
(4) An order under subsection (3) above may be either an order applying to Great Britain and made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting