Industrial Training (Food, Drink and Tobacco Board) Order 1968
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1968/1033 |
1968 No. 1033
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
The Industrial Training (Food, Drink and Tobacco Board) Order 19681stJuly 1968
12thJuly 1968
25thJuly 1968
The Secretary of State after consultation with organisations and associations of organisations appearing to be representative respectively of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities hereinafter mentioned and of substantial numbers of persons employed in those activities and with the bodies established for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership industries in which the said activities are carried on to a substantial extent and in exercise of her powers under section 1 of, and paragraphs 1 and 7 of the Schedule to, the Industrial Training Act 1964(a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training (Food, Drink and Tobacco Board) Order 1968 and shall come into operation on 25th July 1968.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Establishment of Industrial Training Board
2. An industrial training board to be known as the Food, Drink and Tobacco Industry Training Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") is hereby established to exercise in relation to the activities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order as the activities of the food, drink and tobacco industry the functions conferred on industrial training boards by the Act.
Membership and proceedings of the Board
3. The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect in relation to the Board.
Barbara Castle, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity.
1st July 1968.
(a) 1964 c. 16.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
SCHEDULE 1
THE FOOD, DRINK AND TOBACCO INDUSTRY
1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the food, drink and tobacco industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—
(a) any operations by way of business in—
(i) the processing of food or drink for human or animal consumption;
(ii) the production of crude, refined or processed oil, being vegetable, animal, whale or fish oil;
(iii) the production, from any part of an animal carcass, of fats, greases, tallows or sausage casings;
(b) the manufacture of fish meal;
(c) the manufacture of starches;
(d) the manufacture of ice;
(e) the manufacture of tobacco;
(f) the manufacture of barrels, casks, kegs, tubs or vats, being articles wholly or mainly of wood;
(g) the slaughtering of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, asses or mules, when the flesh is intended for human or animal consumption;
(h) grading, packing or warehousing fleeces being the property of the British Wool Marketing Board;
(i) dealing (not being selling by retail) in all or any of the products following—
(i) bread, flour, flour confectionery and yeast;
(ii) milk, ice cream and any commodity similar to ice cream;
(iii) meat;
(iv) fish;
(v) horticultural produce;
(vi) intoxicating liquor, soft drink, tea and raw or green coffee;
(j) grading, packing or dealing (not being selling by retail) in shell eggs;
(k) selling by retail all or any of the products comprised in one or two (but not more than two) of the categories following—
(i) bread, flour, flour confectionery and yeast;
(ii) milk, ice cream and any commodity similar to ice cream;
(iii) meat;
(iv) bacon;
(v) fish;
(vi) horticultural produce;
(l) dealing in all or any of the products following—
(i) grain, other cereals and pulse;
(ii) vegetable, animal, whale or fish oil, whether crude, refined or processed, and oilseeds;
(iii) feeding stuffs intended for use as food for animals, hay and straw;
(m) cleaning, mixing, processing or dealing in seeds;
(n) the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments engaged outside Great Britain wholly or mainly in any activities specified in sub-paragraph (a), (b), (e) or (l)(ii) of this paragraph;
(o) the activities of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, or of a marketing board;
(p) any activities (other than those above mentioned) being—
(i) related activities incidental or ancillary to principal activities of the food, drink and tobacco industry; or
(ii) activities undertaken in the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments, being establishments engaged wholly or mainly in principal activities of that industry, in related activities incidental or ancillary thereto, or in the administration, control or direction of one or more other establishments engaged in such principal or related activities;
and carried out, in either case, by the employer engaged in those principal activities or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;
(q) any other activities of industry or commerce carried out at or from an establishment (not being an establishment of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, or of a marketing board) mainly engaged—
(i) in food, drink and tobacco activities; or
(ii) in food, drink and tobacco activities and in activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule, but to a greater extent in food, drink and tobacco activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, there shall not be included in the activities of the food, drink and tobacco industry:—
(a) the activities of any establishment (not being an establishment of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, or of a marketing board) engaged—
(i) mainly in activities not being food, drink and tobacco activities or activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule; or
(ii) to a less extent in food, drink and tobacco activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry;
(b) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in related activities, being activities—
(i) incidental or ancillary to the activities of one or more establishments (in this sub-paragraph hereafter referred to as "the principal establishment") engaged wholly or mainly in any activities not being principal activities of the food, drink and tobacco industry, and
(ii) carried out by the employer carrying on the principal establishment or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;
(c) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in the activities following or any of them, that is to say—
(i) any operations in agriculture or horticulture;
(ii) dealing in shell eggs by an employer who is engaged substantially in the production of hens' eggs;
(iii) slaughtering, de-feathering, eviscerating or preparing for sale, poultry;
(iv) public warehousing;
(v) the manufacture of infant or dietary milk food by an employer engaged mainly in the manufacture of drugs or medicines;
(vi) the manufacture of any drug or medicine or of cosmetic or toilet compounds, mixtures or preparations;
(vii) the manufacture of a blend of colouring matter by an employer engaged mainly in the manufacture of natural or synthetic dyestuffs or pigments or their intermediates;
(viii) the manufacture of starches for use in the manufacture of any adhesive or size or in laundering;
(ix) the manufacture of fertilizers or conditioners of the soil;
(x) the splitting or distillation of vegetable, animal, whale or fish fats or the production of fatty acids, fatty alcohols, stearine, glycerine or chemical products derived therefrom;
(xi) the production of gelatines from...
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