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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-basic-conditions-regulations-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
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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/3/paragraph/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No person in the course of a commercial service shall use a prescribed plant protection product approved for agricultural use unless that person—\n(a) has obtained a certificate of competence recognised by the Ministers; or\n(b) uses that plant protection product under the direct and personal supervision of a person who holds such a certificate; or\n(c) uses it in accordance with an approval, if any, for one or more of the following uses—\n(i) home garden (amateur gardening);\n(ii) food storage practice;\n(iii) vertebrate control (including rodenticides and repellents);\n(iv) domestic use;\n(v) wood preservation;\n(vi) ‘other’ (as may be defined by the Ministers).\n(2) In this paragraph “commercial service” means the application of a prescribed plant protection product by a person—\n(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;\n(b) to seed other than seed intended solely for use by that person or that person’s employer.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2131",
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  "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."
}