{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-1995/schedule-3/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-1995/schedule-3/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/887",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule—\n“approved pesticide” means a pesticide which is the subject of a pesticide approval;\n“pesticide approval” means approval of a pesticide given under regulation 5 of the 1986 Regulations;\n“pesticide approval holder” means any person who holds a current pesticide approval;\n“relevant active substance” means an active substance which has the same chemical composition as an active ingredient contained in a relevant plant protection product which is an approved pesticide;\n“relevant plant protect product” means any plant protection product—\n(a) which falls within the scope of the 1986 Regulations; and\n(b) at least one of whose active ingredients is an old active substance; and\n“advertisement”, “sale”, “storage”, “supply” and “use” have the same meanings as in the 1986 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See regulation 2(1) of the 1986 Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See regulation 3 of the 1986 Reguations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2499",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2499",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/887/schedule/3/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:14.701940+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."
}