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Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

S.R. 1996/165 · Made 19 April 1996 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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AGRICULTURE

Made 19th April 1996

Coming into operation 20th April 1996

The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 66(1), 74A(1), 84 and 86(1), (2), (3) and (9) of the Agriculture Act 1970f1 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf and after consultation with such persons or organisations as appear to it to represent the interests concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1

1970 c. 40; section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972, c. 68, Schedule 4, paragraph 6, and there are other amendments to the Act not relevant to these Regulations

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Prohibition of mammalian meat and bone meal as or in fertiliser on agricultural land
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

These Regulations may be cited as the Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 20th April 1996.

2InterpretationI1

(1)

In these Regulations—

  • “agricultural land” means land used or capable of use for the purposes of a trade or business in connection with agriculture;

  • “agriculture” includes fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, the use of land for woodlands and horticulture (except the propagation of plants and the growing of plants within greenhouses and glass or plastic structures; and

  • “mammalian meat and bone meal” means proteinaceous material derived from the whole or part of any dead mammal by a process of crushing, cooking and grinding.

(2)

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954f1 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

3Prohibition of mammalian meat and bone meal as or in fertiliser on agricultural landI1

(1)

A person shall not sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a fertiliser on agricultural land, any mammalian meat and bone meal or material derived from or containing mammalian meat and bone meal.

(2)

A person shall not use on agricultural land as a fertiliser any mammalian meat and bone meal or any material derived from or containing mammalian meat and bone meal.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

P. T. Toal

Assistant Secretary

19th April 1996.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations control, in the public interest, the composition or content of fertilisers used or intended for sale for use on agricultural land.

Regulation 2 defines “mammalian meat and bone meal” and “agricultural land”. Regulation 3 prohibits the sale, or possession with a view to sale, for use as a fertiliser on agricultural land any mammalian meat and bone meal or material derived from or containing mammalian meat and bone meal. It also prohibits the use of mammalian meat and bone meal, or material derived from or containing mammalian meat and bone meal, as a fertiliser on agricultural land.

Under section 74A(3) of the Agriculture Act 1970 any person who contravenes the provisions of these Regulations is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (£5,000) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.