# The Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 S.I. 1992/2816 · made 10 November 1992 These Regulations amend the Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970, and implement, in relation to those Regulations, Council Directive 80/181/EEC (OJ No. L39, 15.2.80, p.40) on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement and on the repeal of Directive 71/354/EEC (OJ No. L243, 29.10.71, p.29) as amended by Council Directive 85/1/EEC (OJ No. L2, 18.12.84, p.11) and Council Directive 89/617/EEC (OJ No. L357, 7.12.89, p.28). Made under: Agriculture Act 1970 (Section 39, Section 63) ## Introductory text SMALLHOLDINGS AND ALLOTMENTS Made 10th November 1992 Laid before Parliament 24th November 1992 Coming into force 15th December 1992 The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England, and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 39(2) and 63 of the Agriculture Act 1970 and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:— ## 1 Title and commencement These Regulations may be cited as the Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1992, and shall come into force on 15th December 1992. ## 2 Amendment of the Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970 On 31st December 1994 the Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970 shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3 below. ## 3 Amendment of the Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970 (1) In paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Schedule, for the word “acres” in each place where it appears, there shall be substituted the word “hectares”. (2) For the table in the Schedule there shall be substituted the following table: “ Table Crops Standard man-days (per hectare) Wheat… 4.9 Barley… 4.9 Oats… 7.4 Mixed corn… 7.4 Rye for threshing… 6.2 Potatoes, first early… 37.1 main crop and second early… 37.1 Beans for stockfeeding… 7.4 Turnips, swedes and fodder beet for stockfeeding… 22.2 Mangolds… 27.2 Rape or cole for stockfeeding… 2.5 Kale for stockfeeding… 3.7 Cabbage, savoys and kohlrabi for stockfeeding… 12.4 Mustard for seed, fodder or ploughing-in… 7.4. Other crops for stockfeeding (inc. vetches and tares but not lucerne and grasses)… 7.4 Sugar beet… 24.7 Hops… 173 Orchards grown commercially… 56.8 Orchards not grown commercially… 2.5 Small fruit: Strawberries… 173 Raspberries… 197.7 Currants, black… 98.8 Gooseberries… 98.8 Other small fruit… 148.3 All brassicas… 49.4 Carrots, earlies… 148.3 Carrots, main crop… 24.7 Parsnips… 61.8 Turnips and swedes… 49.4 Beetroot (red beet)… 74.1 Onions, salad… 247.1 Onions, harvesting dry… 61.8 Beans, broad… 74.1 Beans, runner: bush… 74.1 climbing… 197.7 Beans, French… 61.8 Peas, green for market… 74.1 Peas, all others for processing… 7.4 Celery… 98.8 Lettuce, not under glass… 74.1 Other vegetables and mixed areas… 123.6 Hardy nursery stock… 123.6 Bulbs… 247.1 Other flowers not under glass… 617.8 Crops under glass or sheds… 3212.3 Other crops not for feeding to farm livestock… 7.4 Bare fallow… 1.2 Lucerne… 3.1 Clover, sainfoin and temporary grasses… 1.9 Permanent grass… 1.2 Dairy cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk… 10 Dairy heifers in calf… 3.5 Beef cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk… 3 Bulls being used for service… 6 All other cattle… 2.5 Ewes… 0.7 Rams… 0.7 Wethers and other sheep 1 year old and over… 0.2 breeding sows and gilts… 4 Boars… 4 Other pigs over 2 months old… 1 Poultry —Hens and pullets (other than growing pullets), geese and turkeys… 0.1 —Fowls for breeding… 0.2 —Ducks… 0.2 —Broilers, growing pullets and other table fowl… 0.1 ”. ## Signature In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 10th November 1992. John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food David Hunt Secretary of State for Wales 9th November 1992 ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970, and implement, in relation to those Regulations, Council Directive 80/181/EEC (OJ No. L39, 15.2.80, p.40) on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement and on the repeal of Directive 71/354/EEC (OJ No. L243, 29.10.71, p.29) as amended by Council Directive 85/1/EEC (OJ No. L2, 18.12.84, p.11) and Council Directive 89/617/EEC (OJ No. L357, 7.12.89, p.28). Regulation 3 amends the Schedule to the principal Regulations by substituting, for references to “acres” references to “hectares”, and for figures expressed by reference to acres their equivalents by reference to hectares. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2816 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-full-time-employment-amendment-regulations-1992 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.