Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order –

“after school facility” means a facility to accommodate schoolchildren of 4 years of age and older in the absence of their parents at work;

“betting office” means any premises in respect of which there is in force a bookmaking office licence granted under Part II of the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985(1);

“bingo hall” means any premises in respect of which there is in force a bingo club licence granted under Part III of the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;

“call centre” means a large office in which a company’s employees provide information to its customers, or sell or advertise its goods or services by telephone;

“care” means personal care as defined in the Registered Homes (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(2) and in Class C3 (a) also includes the personal care of children and medical care and treatment;

“community centre” means premises used by residents of a particular neighbourhood for social and recreational purposes;

“day centre” means premises which are visited during the day for social or recreational purposes or for the purposes of rehabilitation or occupational training at which care is also provided;

“house in multiple occupation” has the meaning assigned to that term by Article 75 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(3) as amended by Article 143 (1) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003(4);

“industrial process” means a process for or incidental to any of the following purposes:

(a)

the making of any article or part of any article (including an aircraft, ship or vessel, or a film, video or sound recording);

(b)

the altering, repairing, maintaining, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning or adapting for sale of any article;

(c)

the breaking up or demolition of any article (where this is not a process related to the use in Article 3(4)(o)); or

(d)

the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals;

in the course of any trade or business other than agriculture and other than a use carried out in or adjacent to a mine or quarry;

“site” means the whole area of land within a single unit of occupation.

(2) A reference in this Order to a Class followed by a letter and a number is a reference to the Class followed by that letter and a number in the Schedule.