The Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/1125
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 19th April 1996.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“agricultural land” means land used or capable of use for the purposes of a trade or business in connection with agriculture;

“agriculture” includes fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, the use of land for woodlands, and horticulture (except the propagation of plants and the growing of plants within greenhouses and glass or plastic structures); and

“mammalian meat and bone meal” means proteinaceous material derived from the whole or part of any dead mammal by a process of crushing, cooking and grinding.

Section 3 Prohibition of mammalian meat and bone meal as or in fertiliser on agricultural land

(1) No person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a fertiliser on agricultural land any mammalian meat and bone meal or material derived from or containing mammalian meat and bone meal.

(2) No person shall use on agricultural land as a fertiliser any mammalian meat and bone meal or any material derived from or containing mammalian meat and bone meal.