Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 (S.R. No. 1510 of 1986).

These Regulations provide for controlling pesticides in implementation of Part III of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985. They prohibit the advertisement, sale, supply, storage or use of any pesticide unless the Ministers have given an approval in relation to that pesticide and a consent to that activity and unless the conditions of both the approval and the consent have been complied with. In the event of a breach of the specified prohibitions in relation to any pesticide or of the conditions of an approval or a consent, regulation 7 authorises— (a) the seizure or disposal of the pesticide or of anything treated with it; (b) such remedial action as appears to a Minister to be necessary as a result of the contravention; (c) in the case of an imported pesticide, the removal out of the United Kingdom of that pesticide. Any person who uses a pesticide shall take all reasonable precautions to protect the health of human beings, creatures and plants, to safeguard the environment and in particular to avoid pollution of water. Specific provision is made in the Schedule for the protection of waters from aerial spraying.