{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-basic-conditions-regulations-1997/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-basic-conditions-regulations-1997/schedule-4/paragraph-4.json",
  "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/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any person who undertakes the aerial application of a prescribed plant protection product shall—\n(a) keep and retain for not less than 3 years after each application records of—\n(i) the nature, place and date of that application;\n(ii) the registration number of the aircraft used;\n(iii) the name and permanent address of the pilot of that aircraft;\n(iv) the name and quantity of the plant protection product applied;\n(v) the dilution and volume of application of the plant protection product applied;\n(vi) the type and specification of application system (which may include nozzle type and size);\n(vii) the method of application;\n(viii) the flight times of the aerial application;\n(ix) the speed and direction of the wind during the application; and\n(x) any unusual occurrences which affected the application;\n(b) provide the Ministers with summaries of the records required by sub-paragraph (a) above, in any manner which they may require under section 16(11) of the 1985 Act, within 30 days after the end of the calendar month to which those records relate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2131",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/189/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}