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Regulation 2 Interpretation

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(1)

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:—

  • “container” includes any form of packaging of goods for sale as a single item whether by way of wholly or partly enclosing the goods or by way of attaching the goods to, or winding the goods round, some other article, and in particular includes a wrapper or containing band;

  • “recommended by the British Standards Institution”, in relation to the common name of a substance, means recommended in a British Standard published by that Institution or approved by the appropriate Committee of that Institution for inclusion in a future British Standard as a recommended common name; and

  • “scheduled substance” means a substance referred to in the Schedule to these regulations, being a substance to which the Farm and Garden Chemicals Act 1967 applies.

(2)

References in these regulations to any enactment shall be construed as reference to that enactment as amended or applied by any other enactment.

(3)

The Interpretation Act 1889. shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.