{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/regulation-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1657",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) No person shall sell, supply or otherwise market to an end-user a plant protection product authorised for agricultural use unless that person—\n(a) has obtained a specified certificate; or\n(b) sells or supplies that plant protection product under supervision.\n(2) In this regulation, “plant protection product authorised for agricultural use” means a plant protection product (other than a plant protection product with methyl bromide or chloropicrin as one of its active substances) authorised for one or more of the following uses—\n(a) agriculture;\n(b) horticulture (including amenity horticulture);\n(c) forestry\n(d) use in or near water other than for amateur, public hygiene or anti-fouling uses;\n(e) use as an industrial herbicide, including weed-killers for use on land not intended for the production of any crop.\n(3) A certificate issued before 26th November 2013 which evidences knowledge of the safe use of plant protection products acquired by undergoing training or by other means, other than—\n(a) a certificate referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) in the definition of “specified certificate” in regulation 2(1); and\n(b) a certificate issued by a body that has been designated under regulation 5(2),\nis deemed to be a specified certificate until 26th November 2013 when it ceases to be a specified certificate for the purposes of these Regulations unless it appears in a list referred to in regulation 5(11).\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) cease to have effect after midnight on 25th November 2015.\n(5) Any consent—\n(a) under the Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997 granted by, or on behalf of, the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers; or\n(b) under the Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 granted by or on behalf of the Department,\nwhich is valid on 18th July 2012 is deemed to be an authorisation in accordance with Regulation 1107/2009 and any conditions in that consent are deemed to be requirements imposed under Regulation 1107/2009.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/189 amended by S.I.2011/2131."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.R.(NI) 1997 No 470."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1657/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:35.965660+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."
}