Fertilizers Regulations 2017 (Tas)

Fertilizers Regulations 2017

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Fertilizers Act 1993 .

4 December 2017

C. WARNER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

JEREMY ROCKLIFF

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Fertilizers Regulations 2017 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3. Interpretation In these regulations – Act means the Fertilizers Act 1993 ; animal material includes blood, bone, fish, animal flesh and feather meal; blood and bone fertilizer – see regulation 24(1) ; composite sample means a single sample made by combining a number of samples in accordance with regulation 33(2) ; effective neutralising value – see regulation 4 ; foliar application means application to the foliage of a plant; lime means a substance which contains calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, calcium oxide or magnesium oxide and which is used – (a) to increase the pH of soil; or (b) as a soil conditioner; or (c) as a fertilizer; neutralising value, of lime, means the value of the amount of acid neutralised by an amount of the lime, that is expressed as a percentage of the amount of acid neutralised by an equivalent amount of calcium carbonate; tolerance means the amount, expressed as a percentage, by which a characteristic of a fertilizer set out in Schedule 3 may vary from the value of that characteristic stated on the label, invoice or delivery docket for that fertilizer.