The Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997

7.—(1) No person in the course of a commercial service shall use a prescribed plant protection product approved for agricultural use unless that person—

(a) has obtained a certificate of competence recognised by the Ministers; or

(b) uses that plant protection product under the direct and personal supervision of a person who holds such a certificate; or

(c) uses it in accordance with an approval, if any, for one or more of the following uses—

(i) home garden (amateur gardening);

(ii) food storage practice;

(iii) vertebrate control (including rodenticides and repellents);

(iv) domestic use;

(v) wood preservation;

(vi) ‘other’ (as may be defined by the Ministers).

(2) In this paragraph “commercial service” means the application of a prescribed plant protection product by a person—

(a) to crops, land, produce, materials, buildings or the contents of buildings not in the ownership or occupation of that person or that person’s employer;

(b) to seed other than seed intended solely for use by that person or that person’s employer.