What UK Agriculture Act 1970 (Part IV, Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs): Statutory Statement, Composition Controls, Sampling and Analysis requires
Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970 regulates the sale of fertilisers and feeding stuffs in Great Britain, protecting purchasers by requiring sellers to declare composition and by providing a system of independent sampling and analysis, administered by the agriculture departments and local-authority trading-standards services with analysis by the agricultural analyst. Section 66 sets the interpretation of Part IV. Section 68 imposes the central duty of the seller to give a statutory statement specifying prescribed particulars of the fertiliser or feeding stuff sold, and section 69 governs the marking of material prepared for sale. Section 70 controls the use of names or expressions with prescribed meanings. Section 74 sets the limits of variation, the tolerances within which the actual composition may differ from the statutory statement before an offence arises. The enforcement architecture turns on independent analysis: section 75 gives the purchaser the right to have a sample taken and analysed, section 76 gives an inspector the power to enter premises and take samples, and section 77 governs the division of samples and analysis by the agricultural analyst. The prosecution and defence provisions follow: section 80 governs the institution of prosecutions, section 81 deals with offences due to the fault of another person, and section 82 provides the defence of mistake, accident or other cause beyond the defendant's control. Section 84 confers the regulation-making power that fleshes out the prescribed particulars and limits. The Part is the legal basis on which the composition of fertilisers and animal feed sold in Great Britain is declared, sampled and held to a court-defensible standard.
Pillar: Agriculture & Agritech · Authority: UK Parliament / agriculture departments and local-authority trading standards · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/40/contents
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- Agriculture Act 1970, section 66 - interpretation of Part IV (fertilisers and feeding stuffs).
- Agriculture Act 1970, section 68 - duty of seller to give statutory statement.
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