PART 1General
Title and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the EC Fertilisers Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2007.
Interpretation2
1
In these Regulations—
“the Community Regulation” means Regulation (EC) 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council relating to fertilisers3;
“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development;
“fertiliser” means material, the main function of which is to provide nutrients for plants;
“premises” includes any place, any vehicle or trailer, any container, any stall or moveable structure, and any ship or aircraft.
2
In these Regulations—
a
a reference to a numbered Article or Annex is a reference to the Article in, or the Annex to the Community Regulation so numbered; and
b
expressions that are used in the Community Regulation and these Regulations have the same meaning in these Regulations as in the Community Regulation.
3
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19544 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.