Industrial Training (Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Board) Order 1966
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1966/969 |
1966 No. 969
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
The Industrial Training (Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Board) Order 19662ndAugust 1966
11thAugust 1966
15thAugust 1966
The Minister of Labour (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") after consultation with organisations and associations of organisations appearing to be representative respectively of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities hereinafter mentioned and of substantial numbers of persons employed in those activities and with the bodies established for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership industries in which the said activities are carried on to a substantial extent and by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section 1 of, and paragraphs 1 and 7 of the Schedule to, the Industrial Training Act 1964(a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training (Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Board) Order 1966 and shall come into operation on 15th August 1966.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Establishment of Industrial Training Board
2. An industrial training board to be known as the Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Industry Training Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") is hereby established to exercise in relation to the activities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order as the activities of the agricultural, horticultural and forestry industry the functions conferred on industrial training boards by the Act.
Membership and proceedings of the Board
3. The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect in relation to the Board.
R. J. Gunter, Minister of Labour.
2nd August 1966.
(a) 1964 c. 16.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
SCHEDULE 1
THE AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL AND FORESTRY INDUSTRY
1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the agricultural, horticultural and forestry industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—
(a) when carried out on a commercial basis or in connection with a business, any operations in agriculture or horticulture or in forestry;
(b) when carried out by a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, for the purposes of education, or training, in agriculture or horticulture or in forestry, any operations in agriculture or horticulture or in forestry;
(c) when carried out at a centre providing services of artificial insemination for livestock, the provision of such services and any operations in agriculture or horticulture;
(d) when carried out at a livestock testing station, such testing and any operations in agriculture or horticulture;
(e) when carried out on a commercial basis or in connection with a business, any operations in the testing of, or the recording of information about, livestock for the purposes of breeding, feeding or management;
(f) the provision of any services in respect of milk recording;
(g) when carried out by way of business, the laying out of golf courses, bowling greens or private gardens or the cultivation or maintenance of private gardens;
(h) when carried out by way of business the transplanting, topping, lopping, taking down, pruning or spraying of trees, or the trimming or laying of hedges;
(i) when carried out by way of business, for the purposes of agriculture or horticulture, the sterilisation of soil, the preparation of compost or the cutting or preparation of peat;
(j) the provision of a record keeping, clerical or secretarial service wholly or mainly for persons engaged on a commercial basis in any operations in agriculture or horticulture;
(k) the rearing or preserving of pheasants, partridges or grouse, when carried out on a commercial basis or in connection with a business;
(l) any activities, being—
(i) related activities incidental or ancillary to principal activities of the agricultural, horticultural and forestry industry; or
(ii) activities undertaken in the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments, being establishments engaged wholly or mainly in principal activities of that industry, in related activities incidental or ancillary thereto, or in the administration, control or direction of one or more other establishments engaged in such principal or related activities;
and carried out, in either case, by the employer engaged in those principal activities or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;
(m) any activities of industry or commerce (other than agricultural, horticultural and forestry activities) carried out at or from an establishment mainly engaged—
(i) in agricultural, horticultural and forestry activities; or
(ii) in agricultural, horticultural and forestry activities and in activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule, but to a greater extent in agricultural, horticultural and forestry activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, there shall not be included in the activities of the agricultural, horticultural and forestry industry:—
(a) the activities of any establishment engaged—
(i) mainly in activities not being agricultural, horticultural and forestry activities or activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule; or
(ii) to a less extent in agricultural, horticultural and forestry activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry;
(b) the...
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