The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992

includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding and keeping, 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;

includes a profession and an undertaking, and a supply in the course of a business includes any supply by a business;

means any zone within and/or around machinery in which an exposed person is subject to a risk to his health or safety;

has the meaning given by Article 1 of Council Directive 73/23 EEC on the harmonization of the laws of member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits.

means— (a) in Great Britain, the Health and Safety Executive established under section 10 of the Health and Safety at Work etc.

means the requirements in Annex I of the Machinery Directive which is set out in Schedule 3 hereto;

means any person wholly or partially in a danger zone;

means a technical specification adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation or the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation or both, upon a mandate from the Commission in accordance with Council Directive 83/189/EEC of 28th March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations, and of which the reference number is published in the Official Journal of the European Communities;

means any requirement imposed by an enactment which has the same, or substantially the same, effect as any of the essential health and safety requirements which would, but for the provisions of this regulation, be applicable to that machinery for the purposes of complying with these Regulations.

has the meaning given by regulation 4 below;

means Council Directive 89/392/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to machinery as amended by Council Directive 91/368/EEC.

means machinery— (a) designed for use or operation, whether exclusively or not, by persons at work;

means the criteria set out in Annex VII of the Machinery Directive (minimum criteria to be taken into account by member States for the notification of bodies).

means the person or persons given the task of installing, operating, adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, repairing or transporting machinery.

means a person (which may include the Secretary of State) who meets the minimum criteria;

means, in relation to relevant machinery, (a) the manufacturer of that machinery;

means machinery posing special hazards which is specified in Annex IV of the Machinery Directive and listed in Schedule 4 hereto;

means the manufacture of more than one item of relevant machinery of the same type in accordance with a common design;

means a technical specification approved by a recognised standardising body for repeated or continuous application, with which compliance is not compulsory;

means a specification contained in a document which lays down the characteristics required of relevant machinery such as levels of quality, performance, safety or dimensions, including the requirements applicable to the relevant machinery as regards terminology, symbols, testing and test methods, packaging, marking or labelling;

means the Health and Safety at Work etc.

means the Consumer Protection Act 1987;

means the Commission of the European Communities;

means the European Economic Community;

means the Health and Safety Executive established under section 10 of the 1974 Act;

includes any person who assembles machinery or parts thereof to form relevant machinery;

means the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;

means a national standard of a member State— (a) which transposes a harmonised standard;