16Timber contractors

16 Timber contractors (1) This section applies to an individual (the timber contractor) who is engaged by a person (the principal) under a contract for services to do any of the following work: (a) logging (including, for example, felling, crosscutting, snigging, loading, carting, bundling and debarking); (b) felling or cutting trees for firewood; (c) delivering timber or firewood; (d) clearing timber, cutting scrub, preparing land for tree planting, planting trees, pruning trees or coppice cleaning. (2) The timber contractor is taken to be a worker employed by the (a) the work is for (or incidental to) the principal’s trade or business; and (b) the timber contractor personally does part or all of the work; and (c) if the principal is a corporation—the timber contractor is not an (3) This section applies whether the work is to be performed by the timber contractor— (a) for the principal; or (b) for someone (other than the principal) with whom the timber contractor has no contract to perform the work.