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InterpretationU.K.

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;

“agricultural activities”—

(a)

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;

(b)

does not include such activities at a garden centre or other shop,

and for this purpose “livestock breeding and keeping” does not include activities the main purpose of which is entertainment;

[F1authorised defence site” means a site in England and Wales or Scotland—

(a)

that is used for any purpose which, if section 1 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 applied to the Crown, would require the authority of a nuclear site licence in respect of that site; and

(b)

for which there is in force an authorisation granted by or on behalf of the Secretary of State having responsibility for defence authorising it to be used for that purpose;]

[F2 “bus” means a motor vehicle which is designed or adapted to travel along roads and to carry more than eight passengers but which is not a tramcar; ]

[F3“the CLP Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC and amending Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006, of which Articles 6(5), 11(3), 12, 14, 18(3)(b), 23, 25 to 29, 35(2) second and third sub-paragraphs and Annexes I to VII are to be read as amended from time to time;]

F4 ...

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

“construction work” and “contractor” have the meanings assigned to them by regulation 2(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations [F52015];

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

“electricity system” does not include the consumer’s installation within the meaning of regulation 3(1) of the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988(2);

“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;

“fairground” means such part of premises as is for the time being used wholly or mainly for the operation of any fairground equipment, other than a coin-operated ride, non-powered children’s playground equipment, swimming pool slide, go-kart, or plant designed to be used by members of the public for entertainment purposes for bouncing upon;

“gas” has the meaning assigned to it by section 48 of the Gas Act 1986(3);

“gas fitting” has the meaning assigned to it by section 48 of the Gas Act 1986;

“gas system” does not include a portable or mobile appliance supplied with gas from a cylinder, or the cylinder, pipes and other fittings used for supplying gas to that appliance;

[F6“guided bus system” means a system of transport, used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers, that employs buses which for some or all of the time when they are in operation—

(a)

travel along roads; and

(b)

are guided (whether while on the road or at other times) by means of—

(i)

apparatus, a structure or other device which is fixed and not part of the bus; or

(ii)

a guidance system which is automatic;

“guided transport” means a system of transport, used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers, employing vehicles which for some or all of the time when they are in operation are guided by means of—

(a)

rails, beams, slots, guides or other apparatus, structures or devices which are fixed and not part of the vehicle; or

(b)

a guidance system which is automatic;

and for this purpose “vehicle” includes a mobile traction unit;]

[F7“hazardous substance or mixture” means a substance or mixture which meets the criteria for classification within any health hazard or physical hazard class [F8as provided for] in the CLP Regulation;]

“ionising radiation” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of [F9the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 [SI 2017/1075]];

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

“local authority” means—

(a)

in relation to England, a county council so far as they are the council for an area for which there are no district councils, 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;

(b)

in relation to Scotland, the council for a local government area; and

(c)

in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council;

“mine” has the meaning assigned to it by section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954(4) [F10but, notwithstanding [F11subsection (7)] of that section, does not include any railway serving the mine unless and to the extent that the railway is located within the curtilage of the mine;]

[F12the ONR” means the Office for Nuclear Regulation;

new nuclear build site” has the meaning given in regulation 2A;

nuclear warship site” has the meaning given in regulation 2B;]

“office activities” 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; and for this purpose “clerical work” includes writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, filing, typing, duplicating, machine calculating, 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;

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

“preparation dangerous for supply” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 1994(5);

F13...

[F14“quarry” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3 of the Quarries Regulations 1999;]

[F15“railway” means any system of transport the operation of which is specified in regulation 3(2) of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority for Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems) Regulations 2006;]

[F16“road”—

(a)

in England and Wales, means any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes; and

(b)

in Scotland, has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;]

“substance dangerous for supply” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 1994;

[F17“trolley vehicle system” means a system of transport by vehicles constructed or adapted for use on roads without rails under electric power transmitted to them by overhead wires (whether or not there is in addition a source of power on board the vehicles);]

“veterinary surgery” has the meaning assigned to it by section 27 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966(6);

“work” in relation to a gas fitting has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1994(7);

“zoo” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(2) of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981(8).

(2) In these Regulations (except regulation 4(7)), unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the enforcing authority for premises or parts of premises is a reference to the enforcing authority for the relevant statutory provisions in relation to those premises or parts, as the case may be, and to any activity carried on in them.

(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to—

(a)a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation of or Schedule to these Regulations so numbered; and

(b)a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which that reference appears.

Textual Amendments

F14Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.1.2000) by The Quarries Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2024), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 Pt. 2

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.1998, see reg. 1

(1)

S.I. 1988/1655.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1057.

(5)

S.I. 1994/3247.

(7)

S.I. 1994/1886.

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