In this Section–

• “animal” includes a bird or a fish;

• “exempt activity” means–

  1. i

     any activity carried out in a farm or agricultural holding other than the manufacture of goods for sale;

  2. ii

     the manufacture or preparation of food or drink for human consumption but excluding–

     1. aa

        the extraction, distillation or purification of animal or vegetable oil or fat otherwise than as a activity incidental to the cooking of food for human consumption;

     2. bb

        any activity involving the use of green offal or the boiling of blood except the cooking of food (other than tripe) for human consumption;

     3. cc

        the cooking of tripe for human consumption elsewhere than on premises on which it is to be consumed;

  3. iii

     the fleshing, cleaning and drying of pelts of fur-bearing mammals;

  4. iv

     any activity carried on in connection with the operation of a knacker’s yard, as defined in the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 200239;

  5. v

     any activity for the manufacture of soap not falling within Part A of Section 4.1;

  6. vi

     the storage of vegetable matter not falling within any other Section of this Schedule;

  7. vii

     the cleaning of shellfish shells;

  8. viii

     the manufacture of starch;

  9. ix

     the processing of animal or vegetable matter at premises for feeding a recognised pack of hounds registered under the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 2002;

  10. x

      the salting of hides or skins, unless related to any other activity listed in this Schedule;

  11. xi

      any activity for composting animal or vegetable matter or a combination of both, except where that activity is carried on for the purposes of cultivating mushrooms;

  12. xii

      any activity for cleaning, and any related activity for drying or dressing, seeds, bulbs, corms or tubers;

  13. xiii

      the drying of grain or pulses;

  14. xiv

      any activity for the production of cotton yarn from raw cotton or for the conversion of cotton yarn into cloth;

• “food” includes–

  1. i

     drink;

  2. ii

     articles and substances of no nutritional value which are used for human consumption; and

  3. iii

     articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food;

• “green offal” means the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents;

• “underground strata” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 199940;

• “waterways” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.