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Paragraph 1

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Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the engineering industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—

(a)

the manufacture of—

(i)

any article wholly or mainly from metal or any combination of metal and plastics material;

(ii)

any vehicle body;

(iii)

any aircraft, helicopter, glider, hover vehicle (that is to say, a vehicle designed to be supported on a cushion of air) or guided missile;

(iv)

any article embodying a lens or prism;

(v)

any primary cell or battery or electric accumulator;

(vi)

any electric cable, electric filament lamp, electric discharge lamp or photographic flashbulb;

(vii)

any thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valve or tube, cathode-ray tube, electric capacitor or resistor, any device using ferrite for electrical purposes or any semi-conductor device;

(viii)

any pattern for the purpose of engineering;

(b)

the installation, testing, inspection or repair of any article (whether or not so described) specified in sub-paragraph (a) above;

(c)

the production of any non-ferrous metal or semi-manufactured sections from such metal, including the operations of smelting, refining, casting, rolling, drawing, extruding or forging;

(d)

the erection of—

(i)

steel or other metal framework of buildings; or

(ii)

structures made wholly or mainly of steel or other metal (not being electric lines or structures designed for the support thereof, fencing, hoarding or scaffolding);

(e)

electro-plating, anodising, polishing, burnishing, tempering, case-hardening, annealing or any other metal finishing process;

(f)

the machining of graphite;

(g)

the preparation of any engineering drawing;

(h)

when carried out in conjunction with any of the foregoing activities, any of the following activities, that is to say—

(i)

research, development, design or drawing;

(ii)

operations in connection with sale, packing, warehousing, distribution or transport;

(iii)

work done at any office or laboratory, at any store, warehouse or similar place or at a garage;

(i)

any other activity of industry or commerce carried out at or from an establishment engaged mainly in one or more of the foregoing activities.