SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Application of Act to Northern Ireland

Section 3: Work to which this Act applies

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In section 3(5) (power to make regulations excluding or including work) as it applies in relation to work in Northern Ireland—

a

the reference to the Secretary of State shall be read as a reference to the relevant Northern Ireland department, and

F1b

paragraph (b) is to be read as if for “work of a prescribed description as being work to which this Act applies” there were substituted “work of the following nature as being work to which this Act applies—

i

the gathering (by any manner) of wild creatures, or wild plants, of a prescribed description and the processing and packaging of anything so gathered, and

ii

the harvesting of fish from a fish farm (within the meaning of the Fisheries Act (NI) 1966 (c 17 (NI)).