The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors Regulations 2001 No. 1701

SCHEDULE 4 (ANNEX I to the Directive)

Definitions of Equipment

Grass trimmer/grass edge trimmer

24.  A combustion-engine driven portable hand-held unit fitted with flexible line(s), string(s), or similar non-metallic flexible cutting elements, such as pivoting cutters, intended to cut weeds, grass or similar soft vegetation. The cutting device operates in a plane approximately parallel (grass trimmer) or perpendicular (grass edge trimmer) to the ground.