{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-fertilisers-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-fertilisers-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the Community Regulation” means Regulation (EC) 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13th October 2003 relating to fertilisers , as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1618;\n“inspector” means a person appointed under regulation 11(2) or 14(3);\n“operator” means a person to whom an approval has been issued and not withdrawn in respect of a laboratory–\n(a)pursuant to regulation 16(1); or\n(b)as described in regulation 16(3); and\n“premises” includes any land, building, vehicle or trailer, container, stall or moveable structure, ship or other vessel, or aircraft.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n(a) a reference to a numbered Article or numbered Annex is a reference to the Article in, or Annex to, the Community Regulation so numbered;\n(b) any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations;\n(c) any reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which that paragraph occurs unless the reference is expressly stated to relate to a paragraph of an Article in the Community Regulation; and\n(d) words or expressions that are used in the Community Regulation and these Regulations have the same meaning in these Regulations as in the Community Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (28.2.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 304, 21.11.03, p.1 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2076/2004 (O.J. No. L 359, 4.12.2004, p.25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/543/regulation/2",
    "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."
}