# The Farm and Garden Chemicals Regulations 1971, Regulation 3: Products to be labelled on sale


(1) Where a product consisting of or containing one or more scheduled substances is sold or exposed for sale, or consigned or delivered with a view to or in connection with its sale, for use in agriculture or gardening for protecting, or controlling the growth of, plants or for destroying weeds, the product or its container shall have a label bearing on it, in accordance with regulation 4 below, the name of every scheduled substance contained in the product.
(2) Where such a product is sold, consigned or delivered as aforesaid either without a container or in a container supplied by or on behalf of the purchaser, the label shall accompany the product.
(3) Where such a product is exposed for sale as aforesaid without a container the label shall be conspicuously displayed in such a position as to make it clear to any prospective purchaser that it relates to the product.
(4) In every other case to which paragraph (1) above applies the label shall be written on the container for, or supplied with, the product or securely attached to it by means of stitching, the use of an adhesive or any other method except tying.
(5) Nothing in this regulation shall require a product to have a label—
(a) where it is sold or exposed for sale, or consigned or delivered with a view to or in connection with its sale, to a person buying it for the purpose of resale;
(b) where it is sold for exportation to, or consigned or delivered to, a place outside Great Britain; or
(c) where it is an article upon the sale of which the seller is or may be required to give to the purchaser a statutory statement under any enactment relating to fertilisers for the time being in force.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/729/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/farm-and-garden-chemicals-regulations-1971/regulation-3
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