Transitional provision8
The amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulations 5 and 7(a) above shall not affect any material designated as an EEC fertiliser, or in respect of which any indication is given, directly or indirectly, that it is an EEC fertiliser, and which is—
a
sold, offered for sale or held in possession with a view to sale, for use as a fertiliser, or
b
made available to any other person for the final use by that other person as a fertiliser,
(as the case may be)—
i
before 1st January 1999, or
ii
on or after that date, where any packaging, label or accompanying document by means of which the designation was effected or, as the case may be, the indication was given, was used before that date,
and, in relation to any such material, the principal Regulations shall continue to apply, as if those amendments had not been made.