{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-fertilisers-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-fertilisers-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/543",
  "legislation_title": "The EC Fertilisers (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-fertilisers-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Treatment of samples",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations (including an application to a sheriff under regulation 18(1)(b)) to which the content of a fertiliser is relevant–\n(a) a court shall not conclude that a sample is representative of the fertiliser unless the sample–\n(i) has been taken in accordance with Annex IV (methods of sampling and analysis); and\n(ii) has been subjected to analysis in accordance with Annex IV in a laboratory listed in accordance with Article 30 ...;\n(b) a certificate given by a person that that person is an inspector and took a sample in accordance with Annex IV shall, unless the contrary is proved, be taken as evidence of that person being an inspector and having done so;\n(c) a certificate given by an operator of a laboratory that the laboratory is approved for the purposes set out in Article 30(1) and that a sample was analysed in accordance with Annex IV shall, unless the contrary is proved, be evidence of the laboratory being so approved and the analysis having been so carried out; and\n(d) the combination of the certificates referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) shall, unless the contrary is proved, be taken as evidence that a sample is representative of the fertiliser.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(a)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Fertilisers and Pesticides (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/25), regs. 1, 2(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/543/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:22.168773+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}