Farm and Garden Chemicals Act 1967

1 Regulations as to labelling and marking of farm and garden chemicals

(1) The Ministers may make regulations for imposing requirements as to, and otherwise regulating, the labelling and marking of products consisting of or containing any substance to which this Act applies, or in the preparation of which any such substance has been used as an ingredient, being products intended for sale for use in agriculture or gardening for protecting, or controlling the growth of, plants or for destroying weeds, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision—

(a) for providing for the name to be used for any such substance in any label attached to or written on the container for, or supplied with, any product in which the substance is contained or in the preparation of which it has been used as an ingredient; and

(b) for requiring any such label to bear a prescribed mark, symbol or colour to indicate the extent of any hazard which the product constitutes to human beings or other forms of life and to bear prescribed words of explanation or warning.

(2) Regulations under this section may include such ancillary and incidental provisions as appear to the Ministers to be necessary or desirable, may confer exemptions from the provisions of the regulations and may make different provision for different cases.

(3) Before making any regulations under this section (other than regulations which reproduce, without substantive modifications, any regulations in force immediately before the coming into operation of the new regulations) the Ministers shall consult with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the new regulations.

(4) The power to make regulations under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(5) No regulations under this section shall come into force before the expiration of the period of fifteen months beginning with the passing of this Act.