# The Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/189/schedule/3/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-basic-conditions-regulations-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-7
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