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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-basic-conditions-regulations-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/189",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-basic-conditions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any person who sells, supplies or stores a prescribed plant protection product shall—\n(a) take all reasonable precautions, particularly with regard to storage and transport, to protect the health of human beings, creatures and plants, safeguard the environment and in particular avoid the pollution of water; and\n(b) be competent for the duties which that person is called upon to perform.\n(2) In this paragraph “water” means—\n(a) any surface water;\n(b) any ground water.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2131",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2131",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/189/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:56.904606+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."
}