{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3244",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Injurious Substances) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Use of treated wood",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall use treated wood other than for—\n(a) a professional or industrial use; or\n(b) research and development or analysis purposes.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall use treated wood—\n(a) inside any building;\n(b) for the manufacture of containers intended for the purposes of growing plants or for any retreatment of such containers;\n(c) for the manufacture of packaging which may come into contact with raw, intermediate or finished products intended for human or animal consumption;\n(d) for the manufacture of materials other than packaging which may contaminate raw, intermediate or finished products intended for human or animal consumption;\n(e) for any re-treatment of packaging or materials referred to in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d);\n(f) in playgrounds and in other outdoor places of public pleasure; or\n(g) in other situations where there is a risk that it may come into contact with skin.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2)(g) shall not apply to old treated wood.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3244/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:12.609998+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."
}