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AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for securing the safety, health and welfare of
persons employed in agriculture and certain other occupations and the
avoidance of accidents to children arising out of the use, in
connection with agriculture, of vehicles, machinery or implements; and
for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[31st December 1959]
Safety, Health and Welfare of EmployeesNS.1 rep by SR 1979/129;
1981/93

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 2
Lifting excessive weights.

2.(1) A young person shall not be employed as a worker in
agriculture to lift, carry or move a load so heavy as to be
likely to cause injury to him.

Subs.(2) rep. by SR 1979/129

(3)In the event of a contravention, in the case of any worker, of
the provisions of sub-section (1) ... his employer shall be guilty
of an offence.

Ss.3,4 rep. by SR 1979/129; 1981/93

S.5 rep. by SR 1979/129

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 6
Inquests in case of death by accident.

6.(1) Subject to sub-sections (2) and (3), where a coroner holds an
inquest on the body of a person whose death may have been caused
by an accident occurring in the course of agricultural operations,
the coroner shall adjourn the inquest unless an inspector or some
other person on behalf of the Ministry is present to watch the
proceedings, and shall, at least four days before holding the
adjourned inquest, give to the Ministry notice in writing of the
time and place of holding the adjourned inquest.

(2) Before the adjournment of an inquest in pursuance of sub-section
(1), the coroner may take evidence to identify the body and may
order the interment thereof.

(3) Where an inquest relates to the death of not more than one
person, the coroner shall not be bound to adjourn the inquest in
pursuance of sub-section (1) if, not less than twenty-four hours
before it is held, he informed the Ministry of the time and place
of the holding thereof.

(4) Where evidence is given at any such inquest at which an
inspector is not present of any neglect as having caused or
contributed to the accident, or of any defect in any building,
structure, machinery, plant, equipment or appliance appearing to the
coroner or jury to require a remedy, the coroner shall give to the
Ministry notice in writing of the neglect or defect.

Ss.711 rep. by SR 1979/129

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 12
Defence available to persons charged with offences.

12. It shall be a defence for a person charged with contravention
of a provision of this Act ... to prove that he used all due
diligence to secure compliance with that provision.

Ss.1316 rep. by SR 1979/129

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 17
Application to the Crown.

17. [Section two shall, in so far as it imposes] duties failure to
comply with which might give rise to a liability in tort, be
binding on the Crown to the full extent authorised or permitted by
the constitutional laws of Northern Ireland.

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 18
Interpretation.

18. In this Act

"agriculture" includes dairy-farming, the production of any consumable
produce which is grown for sale or for consumption or other use
for the purposes of a trade or business or of any other
undertaking (whether carried on for profit or not), and the use of
land as grazing, meadow or pasture land or orchard or osier land
or woodland or for market gardens or nursery grounds and
"agricultural" shall be construed accordingly;

Definition rep. by SR 1981/93

"consumable produce" means produce grown for consumption or for other
use after severance from the land on which it is grown;

"inspector" means a person authorised under the seal of the
[Department of Agriculture] to be an inspector for the purposes of
[the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978];

Definition rep. by SR 1981/93

"worker" means a person employed under a contract of service and
"employer" and "employed" shall have corresponding meanings;

"young person" means a person who is over compulsory school age for
the purposes of the Education Act (Northern Ireland), 1947, but who
has not attained the age of eighteen.

AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN
IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 19
Short title.

19. This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Safety, Health and
Welfare Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland), 1959.