The Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1985 Act” means the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985;

“active substance” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products Regulations;

“aerial application” means the application of a prescribed plant protection product from an aircraft in flight;

“agricultural” has the meaning assigned to it in section 24(1) of the 1985 Act;

“contravenes” includes “fails to comply with”;

“creature” means any living organism other than a human being or plant;

“crops” includes any form of vegetable produce;

“ground water” means any waters contained in underground strata;

“organism” means any animal, plant, fungus or micro-organism capable of carrying on life processes;

“the Plant Protection Products Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995(1);

“plant” means any form of vegetable matter, while it is growing and after it has been harvested, gathered, felled or picked, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of this definition, includes—

(a)

agricultural crops;

(b)

trees and bushes grown for purposes other than those of agriculture;

(c)

wild plants; and

(d)

fungi;

“prescribed plant protection product” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 3;

“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale and“sale” shall be construed accordingly;

“substance” means any chemical element or compound which occurs naturally or by manufacture and includes any impurity which results from the manufacturing process;

“supply” includes offer to supply;

“surface water” means estuarial and coastal waters and any lake, loch, pond, reservoir, river, stream or watercourse including the bottom, channel or bed of any lake, loch, pond, reservoir, river, stream or, as the case may be, watercourse which is for the time being dry.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1995/887, amended by S.I. 1996/1940.