The Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“active ingredient” means a component of a pesticide which fits it for use as a pesticide;

“adjuvant” means a substance other than water, without significant pesticidal properties, which enhances or is intended to enhance the effectiveness of a pesticide, when it is added to that pesticide;

“aerial application” means the application of a pesticide from an aircraft in flight;

“approval” means an approval given jointly by the Ministers under regulation 5 in relation to a pesticide;

“curtilage” means the land attached to a building and forming one enclosure with it;

“evaluation” means a written evaluation of study reports or other data examined in the course of an appraisal by the Ministers of a pesticide in relation to which approval is sought;

“experimental permit” has the meaning given by regulation 5(2)(a);

“full approval” has the meaning given by regulation 5(2)(c);

“local beekeepers' spray warning scheme” means any scheme for the advance notification of the application of pesticides, organised by local beekeepers and notified to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales (being the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Wales);

“metal working fluid” means any fluid used to facilitate the cutting, drilling, forming or machining of metal;

“micropropagation” means the growth of plantlets from tissue culture or small parts of a plant in culture solution and under conditions which are sterile apart from the presence of that plant;

“mycoplasma” means a genus of organisms which have a unit membrane without a rigid cell wall and are highly pleomorphic, having no independent form or spore stage in the life cycle;

“novel food” means any food or food ingredient produced from raw material which hitherto has not been used for human consumption or has been so used only in small amounts, or produced by new or extensively modified processes not previously used in the production of food;

“paint” includes surface coatings;

“provisional approval” has the meaning given by regulation 5(2)(b);

“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and “sale” shall be construed accordingly;

“supply” includes offer to supply;

“soil sterilant” means a substance used to control harmful organisms in soil or compost.

(2) Any reference in these regulations to a numbered regulation or schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or schedule so numbered in these regulations.