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Chapter NMWM06030

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Vincent
Published date16 April 2016
Record NumberNMWM06030
CourtHM Revenue & Customs
The following are likely to come within the definition of “agriculture” and be subject to the Agricultural Wages Order
  • care of and attention to bulls kept and used in connection with artificial insemination;
  • care of and attention to poultry in batteries or other housed poultry;
  • drawing and plucking poultry for a first sale, on the premises on which the birds are reared;
  • planting, felling and other jobs generally connected with the establishment, maintenance and harvesting of woodland or forests;
  • employment in the gardens of a hotel, school, convent, hospital or other institution growing food wholly or mainly for outside sale or for consumption on the premises;
  • packing and grading of eggs or other produce on the farm on which the eggs were produced (but not at a packing station);
  • pheasant breeding if the land on which they are reared contributes to their upkeep and if they are reared to be eaten or sold as food but not for shooting;
  • grass drying where it involves the employer’s own grass;
  • agricultural mechanics where they are employed by the farmer himself/herself rather than by a third party or by a contractor.
The following are unlikely to come within the definition of “agriculture” and are not subject to the Agricultural Wages Order
  • care of and attention to poultry or bantams kept solely as a hobby for showing at country shows etc;
  • chick sexing;
  • seed analysis;
  • packing and grading of eggs or other produce at a packing station;
  • groundsmen looking after playing...

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