- a notice
means an improvement notice or a prohibition notice.
- accounting year
means the period of 12 months ending with 31st March in any year;
- Act
includes a provisional order confirmed by an Act;
- 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;
- article of fairground equipment
means any fairground equipment or any article designed for use as a component in any such equipment;
- 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) until such conditions as to the payment of instalments or otherwise as may be specified in the agreement are fulfilled;
- contract of employment
means a contract of employment or apprenticeship (whether express or implied and, if express, whether oral or in writing);
- contravention
includes failure to comply, and “contravene” has a corresponding meaning;
- credit-sale agreement
means an agreement for the sale of goods, under which the purchase price or part of it is payable by instalments, but which is not a conditional sale agreement;
- customs officer
means an officer within the meaning of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;
- damage
includes the death of, or injury to, any person (including any disease and any impairment of a person’s physical or mental condition).”
- domestic premises
means premises occupied as a private dwelling (including any garden, yard, garage, outhouse or other appurtenance of such premises which is not used in common by the occupants of more than one such dwelling), and “non-domestic premises” shall be construed accordingly;
- employee
means an individual who works under a contract of employment or is treated by section 51A as being an employee, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;
- enforcing authority
has the meaning assigned by section 18(7);
- fairground equipment
means any fairground ride, any similar plant which is designed to be in motion for entertainment purposes with members of the public on or inside it or any plant which is designed to be used by members of the public for entertainment purposes either as a slide or for bouncing upon, and in this definition the reference to plant which is designed to be in motion with members of the public on or inside it includes a reference to swings, dodgems and other plant which is designed to be in motion wholly or partly under the control of, or to be put in motion by, a member of the public;
- fees relating to nuclear site regulation
means fees payable for or in connection with the performance of a function by or on behalf of—
- health and safety regulations
has the meaning assigned by section 15(1);
- hire-purchase agreement
means an agreement other than a conditional sale agreement, under which— (a) goods are bailed or (in Scotland) hired in return for periodical payments by the person to whom they are bailed or hired;
- improvement notice
means a notice under section 21;
- inspector
means an inspector appointed under section 19;
- licence
means a licence under any of the relevant statutory provisions...;
- local authority
means— (a) in relation to England..., a county council,... a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London, the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple or the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple, (aa) in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council, (b) in relation to Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- micro-organism
includes any microscopic biological entity which is capable of replication;
- modifications
includes additions, omissions and amendments, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;
- nuclear safeguards purposes
has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Energy Act 2013 (nuclear regulation etc.) (see section 72 of that Act);
- nuclear safety purposes
has the same meaning as in that Part of that Act (see section 68 of that Act);
- nuclear security purposes
has the same meaning as in that Part of that Act (see section 70 of that Act);
- offshore installation
means any installation which is intended for underwater exploitation of mineral resources or exploration with a view to such exploitation;
- personal injury
includes any disease and any impairment of a person’s physical or mental condition;
- plant
includes any machinery, equipment or appliance;
- premises
includes any place and, in particular, includes— (a) any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft, (b) any installation on land (including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water), any offshore installation, and any other installation (whether floating, or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof, or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof), and (c) any tent or moveable structure;
- prescribed
means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;
- prohibition notice
means a notice under section 22;
- railway safety purposes
has the same meaning as in Schedule 3 to the Railways Act 2005;
- relevant information
means information obtained by a person under section 27(1) or furnished to any person, other than the Office for Nuclear Regulation (or an inspector appointed by it),under section 27A above, by virtue of section 43A(6) below or in pursuance of a requirement imposed by any of the relevant statutory provisions;
- responsible enforcing authority
means an enforcing authority within whose field of responsibility the offence in question lies, whether by virtue of section 35 or otherwise.
- 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;
- specified
means specified in health and safety regulations.
- substance
means any natural or artificial substance (including micro-organisms), whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour;
- the Executive
has the meaning assigned by section 10(1);
- the existing statutory provisions
means the following provisions while and to the extent that they remain in force, namely the provisions of the Acts mentioned in Schedule 1 which are specified in the third column of that Schedule and of the regulations, orders or other instruments of a legislative character made or having effect under any provision so specified;
- the general purposes of this Part
has the meaning assigned by section 1;
- the radioactive material transport purposes
means the transport purposes within the meaning of Part 3 of the Energy Act 2013 (see section 73 of that Act);
- the relevant statutory provisions
means— (a) the provisions of this Part and of any health and safety regulations...;
- the transferred purposes
means—
- work
means work as an employee or as a self-employed person;