United Kingdom Statutory Instruments

"agricultural product" means products of - 

(a) the soil;

(b) dairy farming;

(c) the breeding and keeping of livestock, and

(d) poultry farming,

and products of first-stage processing directly relating to such products;

"agricultural purpose" includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land and meadow land, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes;

"farm" means land which is occupied for agricultural purposes, including any dwelling-house or other building occupied by the same person for the purpose of farming the land;

"feeding stuff" means - 

(a) a product of vegetable or animal origin in its natural state (whether fresh or preserved);

(b) a product derived from the industrial processing of such a product; or

(c) an organic or inorganic substance, used singly or in a mixture (and whether or not containing additives);

for oral feeding to animals which, or kinds of which, are in particular kept for the production of food, skins or fur or for the purpose of their use in the farming of land;

"fertiliser" means a fertiliser used for the cultivation of crops or plants of any description, including trees;

"fuel" includes any substances used as a source of heat or power;

"grain" includes wheat, maize, oats, rye, barley, rice, pulses, seeds and processed forms thereof;

"livestock" includes cattle, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, sheep, pigs, goats, poultry, deer and, while in captivity, pheasants, partridges and grouse;

"machinery" includes:

(i) digging machines;

(ii) mobile cranes;

(iii) generators and compressors;

(iv) construction equipment, including wheel loaders, bulldozers, crawler tractors, crawler loaders, truck-type loaders, off-highway trucks and hydraulic excavators;

(v) agricultural equipment;

(vi) self-propelled agricultural vehicles including tractors;

(vii) fork-lift trucks;

"vehicle", whether laden or not, has the same meaning as "vehicles" in the Council Regulation.

 - the movement of machinery is added to regulation 3(1)(a); and

 - the reduced weekly rest of 24 consecutive hours is extended to 45 consecutive hours every third week (regulation 3(2)(b)).

These Regulations provide that until 3rd June 2001, any time spent driving vehicles for the purposes specified in regulation 3(1) to meet the exceptional circumstances occasioned by the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain, or the effects or consequences of such exceptional circumstances, shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the application of Article 6(2) of the Council Regulation.

These Regulations also provide that in relation to the driving of such vehicles in the exceptional circumstances mentioned above, Articles 6(1) and 8(3) of the Council Regulation shall have effect subject to certain modifications.