{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-regulations-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-regulations-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2197",
  "legislation_title": "The Fertilisers Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fertilisers-regulations-1991",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The limits of variation permitted in respect of the declared content for the forms of nitrogen or the declared solubilities of phosphorus pentoxide shall be as follows:\n(a) except as provided in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, the limit of variation shall be one-tenth of the overall content of the nutrient concerned, with a maximum of 2 % by weight:\nProvided that the overall content of that nutrient remains within:\n(i) the levels specified in the third column of the following table save as respects the materials in Groups 1 to 4 of Section B and Group 2 of Section C of the said table which ... are sold or offered for sale;\n(ii) the limits of variation specified in the fifth or, where appropriate, the sixth column of the said table.\n(b) in the case of materials in Group 1(c) of Section A and Groups 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of Section B and Groups 1(d), 2, 3 and 4 of Section C of the following table which ... are sold or offered for sale, the limits of variation of ureic nitrogen when declared at 10 % and above shall be plus or minus 1.5 % by weight and when declared below 10% shall be plus or minus 1.0% by weight.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(a)(i) omitted (15.3.2019) by virtue of The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(b) omitted (15.3.2019) by virtue of The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7 in force at 1.11.1991, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2197/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:37:20.267878+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."
}