The Community Drivers' Hours (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Temporary Exception) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “agricultural product” means products of—

  (a)

  the soil;

  (b)

  dairy farming;

  (c)

  the breeding and keeping of livestock; and

  (d)

  poultry farming,

  and products of first-stage processing directly relating to such products;

• “agricultural purpose” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land and meadow land, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes;

• “the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3820/85 of 20th December 1985 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport(1);

• “farm” means land which is occupied for agricultural purposes, including any dwelling-house or other building occupied by the same person for the purpose of farming the land;

• “feeding stuff” means—

  (a)

  a product of vegetable or animal origin in its natural state (whether fresh or preserved);

  (b)

  a product derived from the industrial processing of such a product; or

  (c)

  an organic or inorganic substance, used singly or in a mixture (and whether or not containing additives),

  for oral feeding to animals which, or kinds of which, are in particular kept for the production of food, skins or fur or for the purpose of their use in the farming of land;

• “fertiliser” means a fertiliser used for the cultivation of crops or plants of any description, including trees;

• “fuel” includes any substance used as a source of heat or power;

• “grain” includes wheat, maize, oats, rye, barley, rice, pulses, seeds and processed forms thereof;

• “livestock” includes cattle, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, sheep, pigs, goats, poultry, deer and, while in captivity, pheasants, partridges and grouse;

• “machinery” includes—

  (i)

  digging machines;

  (ii)

  mobile cranes;

  (iii)

  generators and compressors;

  (iv)

  construction equipment, including wheel loaders, bulldozers, crawler tractors, crawler loaders, truck-type loaders, off-highway trucks and hydraulic excavators;

  (v)

  agricultural equipment;

  (vi)

  self-propelled agricultural vehicles including tractors; and

  (vii)

  fork-lift trucks.

• “vehicle”, whether laden or not, has the same meaning as “vehicles” in the Council Regulation.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(1)

O.J. No. L370, 31.12.85, p. 1

(2)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)