A person who has an offer of employment for seasonal work to carry out specified activities in edible horticulture on a named farm or farming land, but only to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (3).

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

• “seasonal work” is employment which fluctuates or is restricted due to the season or time of the year,

• “edible horticulture” means growing—

  1. a

     protected vegetables grown in glasshouse systems,

  2. b

     field vegetables grown outdoors, including vegetables, herbs, leafy salads and potatoes,

  3. c

     soft fruit grown outdoors or under cover,

  4. d

     trees that bear fruit,

  5. e

     vines and bines,

  6. f

     mushrooms,

• “specified activities” means—

  1. a

     crop maintenance,

  2. b

     crop harvesting,

  3. c

     tunnel construction and dismantling,

  4. d

     irrigation installation and maintaining,

  5. e

     crop husbandry,

  6. f

     packing and processing of crops on employers premises,

  7. g

     preparing and dismantling growing areas and media,

  8. h

     general primary production work in edible horticulture,

  9. i

     activities relating to supervising teams of horticulture workers.

A person described in sub-paragraph (1) is required to comply with regulation 6(2) as modified by regulation 6(5).