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These Regulations may be cited as the Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 19th April 1996.
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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.
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(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.
Angela Browning
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
18th April 1996Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Welsh Office
18th April 1996Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Scottish Office
18th April 1996