Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act 1926

1 Obligation to furnish statutory statements

(1) It shall be the duty of every person who sells for use as a fertiliser of the soil or as food for cattle or poultry any article included in the first column of the First or Second Schedule to this Act, whatever may be the name under which the article is sold, to give the purchaser on or before delivery, or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, a statement in writing (hereinafter referred to as a statutory statement) in such form (if any) as may be prescribed, containing the following particulars :—

(a) the name under which the article is sold;

(b) such particulars (if any) of the nature, substance, or quality of the article as are in relation to the article mentioned in the second column of such schedule;

(c) where the article, if a feeding stuff, contains any ingredient included in the Third Schedule to this Act, the name of such ingredient:

Provided that the obligation so imposed shall not apply—

(i) to sales of two or more articles which are mixed at the request of the purchaser before delivery to him :

(ii) to sales of small quantities (that is to say, sales in quantities of fifty-six pounds or less) if the article sold is taken in the presence of the purchaser from a parcel bearing a conspicuous label on which are marked in the prescribed manner the particulars required by this section to be contained in the statutory statement.

(2) Failure to give a statutory statement in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not invalidate a contract for sale.