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).