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In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-

"advertising" means the promotion of the sale and use of pesticides by print or electronic media, signs, displays, gifts, demonstration or word of mouth;

"Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency;

"banned pesticide" means a pesticide for which registered use has been prohibited by the Agency or for which registration has not been granted by the Agency for health and environmental reasons;

"Board" means the Environmental Protection Agency Board established under section 4 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1994 (Act 490);

"Committee" means the Pesticides Technical Committee provided for under section 30;

"dealer" means any person who imports, exports, manufactures, distributes, advertises or sells pesticide;

"defoliant" means a substance or mixture of substances which when applied to a plant causes the leaves or foliage to drop from the plant with or without abscission;

"District Assembly" includes Municipal and Metropolitan Assembly;

"desiccant" means a substance or mixture of substances which when applied to a plant, accelerates the drying of the tissue of the plant;

"distribute" means to supply commercially, to transport, store or sell;

"formulation" means the combination of various ingredients designed to render the product useful and effective for the purpose claimed, or the form of pesticide as purchased by users;

"Inspector" means Environmental Protection Inspector appointed under section 15 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1994 (Act 490) or person of the relevant sub-committee of a District Assembly authorised under section 31 (1) of this Act;

"label" includes any writing, printing or illustration made on, attached to, included in, belonging to or accompanying a pesticide or its container;

"manufacture" in relation to a pesticide means to do any of the following-prepare, compound, make the active or other ingredients, to add substances, mix, formulate, package or re-package, label or otherwise treat the active ingredient with a view to its sale, but does not include the carrying on of bona fide research or experiment relating to a pesticide or doing of an act or thing that forms part of or is incidental to such research or experiment;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the Environment;

"pest" means any insect, rodent, bird, fish, mollusc, nematode, fungus, weed micro-organism, virus or any other kind of plant or animal life that is injurious to human or animal health, crops, stored produce, processed foods, wood, cloths, fabrics or other inanimate objects;

"pesticide" means-

(a) a substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or reducing the destructive effects of any pest; or

(b) a substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, desiccant or wood preservative;

"plant regulator" means a substance or mixture of substances which, when applied to ornamental or crop plants or to their produce, causes, through physiological action, the acceleration or retardation of the rate of growth or otherwise alters the behaviour of those plants or their produce, but does not include substances intended for use as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants or soil amelicration;

"prescribed" means prescribed by legislative instrument;

"Prior Informed Consent Procedure" means the international operation procedure for exchanging, receiving and handling notification information by the Agency on restricted, suspended and banned pesticides for reasons of health and the environment;

"Sell" includes to offer for sale and to provide pesticide as part of a service of pest control notwithstanding that the pesticide is described as free or included in the service.

"unreasonable adverse effect on the environment" means any effect which is injurious to human, animal or plant life or which renders the environment unsafe for human, animal or plant life;