In these regulations –

Act means the Fertilizers Act 1993 ;

animal material includes blood, bone, fish, animal flesh and feather meal;

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;

neutralizing value means the value equivalent to the amount of acid neutralized by an amount of fertilizer expressed as a percentage of the amount of acid neutralized by an equal 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.