{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-mammalian-meat-and-bone-meal-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-mammalian-meat-and-bone-meal-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/165",
  "legislation_title": "Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-mammalian-meat-and-bone-meal-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations control, in the public interest, the composition or content of fertilisers used or intended for sale for use on agricultural land.\nRegulation 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.\nUnder 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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/165/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:24.737647+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."
}