The Pesticides, Genetically Modified Organisms and Fertilisers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Amendment of the Fertilisers Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

3.—(1) The Fertilisers Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1) are amended as follows.

(2) Omit regulations 1A and 2.

(3) Before regulation 3, insert—

“Scope: “EC fertilisers”

2A.   These Regulations do not apply to fertilisers designated as “EC fertilisers”.”.

(4) In regulation 3—

(a) for the heading, substitute “Control of materials”;

(b) renumber the existing regulation as paragraph (1) of regulation 3;

(c) omit “, not being designated as an EEC fertiliser or EC fertiliser,”.

(5) In regulation 3A—

(a) renumber the existing regulation as paragraph (2) of regulation 3;

(b) omit “, not being designated as an EEC fertiliser or EC fertiliser,”.

(6) In regulation 4(4) and (5), omit “, not being designated as EEC fertilisers or EC fertilisers,”.

(7) In the following regulations, omit “, not being designated as an EEC fertiliser or EC fertiliser,”—

(a) regulation 7(b) and (c);

(b) regulation 9(b) and (c).

(8) In regulation 10 (Register of marks), in paragraph (1), at the beginning, omit “Except in the case of materials sold or offered for sale designated as EEC fertilisers or EC fertilisers,”.

(9) Omit regulation 11 (Enforcement).

(10) Schedule 1 (Prescribed descriptions of material, meanings of names, particulars and information to be contained in the statutory statement and limits of variation), is amended as follows—

(a) in the following paragraphs, omit “, not being designated as EEC fertilisers or EC fertilisers,”—

(i) paragraph 6;

(ii) paragraph 7(a)(i) and (b);

(b) in section B of the table, in column 4, in the table relating to nitrogen, in each place it occurs—

(i) omit the column headed “EC fertiliser”;

(ii) in the second column, for “Other than EEC fertiliser or EC fertiliser”, substitute “Fertiliser”;

(c) in section C of the table, in group 2, in column (4), in each place they occur, omit—

(i) “EC fertiliser”;

(ii) “Other than EEC fertiliser or EC fertiliser”.

(11) Schedule 2 (Manner of marking and labelling materials and fastening of packaged material), is amended as follows—

(a) in Part I, in paragraph 1—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (a);

(ii) in sub-paragraph (i), omit the words from the beginning to “EC fertilisers,”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (k), omit “, sold or offered for sale as an EC fertiliser,”;

(b) in Part II, in paragraph 2, omit the words from the beginning to “EC fertiliser,”.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 187, as amended by S.R. 1995 No. 49, S.R. 1997 No. 378 and S.R. 1998 No. 353.