The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1989

includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding and keeping, including the management of livestock up to the point of slaughter or export from Great Britain, forestry, the use of land as grazing land, market gardens and nursery grounds and the preparation of land for agricultural use;

includes writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, filing, typing, duplicating, machinecalculating, drawing and the editorial preparation of matter for publication except where that preparation is on the premises where newspapers, magazines, periodicals or books are printed;

means those parts of premises used in common by, or for providing common services to or common facilities for, the occupiers of the premises;

means a “building operation” or a “work of engineering construction” within the meanings assigned to those expressions by section 176(1) of the Factories Act 1961;

means services of a type ordinarily supplied to persons who receive them otherwise than in the course of a trade, business or other undertaking carried on by them (whether for profit or not).

means a self-employed person, or an employer of persons, carrying out construction work, except that in the case of a self-employed person who contracts to provide his labour only to another person, it shall mean that other person;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations 1984;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Docks Regulations 1988;

means any part of premises which is for the time being used wholly or mainly for the operation of any fairground equipment, other than a coin-operated ride, non-powered childrens' playground equipment or a swimming pool slide;

includes video.

has the meaning assigned to it by section 48 of the Gas Act 1986;

has the meaning assigned to it by section 48 of the Gas Act 1986;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985;

means any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur or for the purpose of any agricultural activity;

means— (a) in relation to England and Wales, a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London, the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple, the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple or the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

has the meaning assigned to it by section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;

includes any activity for the purposes of administration, clerical work, handling money, telephone and telegraph operating and the production of computer software by the use of computers;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Docks Regulations 1988;

has the meaning assigned to it by section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;

means a railway or tramway with (in either case) a gauge of 350 millimetres or more;

means such provisions of the Explosives Act 1875 and such Orders in Council, Orders, Byelaws, Regulations and Rules made thereunder as are relevant statutory provisions.

means the Health and Safety at Work etc.

means the Health and Safety Commission;

means the Health and Safety Executive;

means an undertaking primarily engaged in the transport of passengers or goods;

has the meaning assigned to it by section 27 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966;

has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(2) of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981.