Section 4: Containers, labels and prohibitions
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Containers, labels and prohibitions
(1) Subject to subsection (4), no chemical fertiliser shall be sold except in
completely sealed containers.
(2) Every container shall bear from outside a conspicuous label or other
device specifying—
(a) the name of the chemical fertiliser, its manufacturer and batch
number;
(b) its composition, including its moisture percentage; and
(c) in the case of a chemical fertiliser specified in the first column of
the Second Schedule, the particulars of the basic elements set
out in the third column of that Schedule.
(3) No chemical fertiliser specified in the first column of the Second
Schedule shall be sold under any brand or description unless its composition
or the limits of variation comply with the specifications respectively set out
in the third and fourth columns of the Second Schedule.
(4) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the sale of a chemical fertiliser in a
quantity not exceeding 5 kilograms, where, for the purpose of the sale, the
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chemical fertiliser is removed from a container which complies with subsection (2).