Paragraph 7

(1)

No person in the course of a commercial service shall use a prescribed plant protection product approved for agricultural use unless that person—

(a)

has obtained a certificate of competence recognised by the Ministers; or

(b)

uses that plant protection product under the direct and personal supervision of a person who holds such a certificate; or

(c)

uses it in accordance with an approval, if any, for one or more of the following uses—

(i)

home garden (amateur gardening);

(ii)

food storage practice;

(iii)

vertebrate control (including rodenticides and repellents);

(iv)

domestic use;

(v)

wood preservation;

(vi)

‘other’ (as may be defined by the Ministers).

(2)

In this paragraph “commercial service” means the application of a prescribed plant protection product by a person—

(a)

to crops, land, produce, materials, buildings or the contents of buildings not in the ownership or occupation of that person or that person’s employer;

(b)

to seed other than seed intended solely for use by that person or that person’s employer.