Fertilizers Regulations

3.1 (1) A customer-formula fertilizer containing a pesticide registered under the Pest Control Products Act for the purpose stated on the label is exempt from registration.

(2) [Repealed, SOR/85-558, s. 3]

(3) The following fertilizers and supplements are exempt from registration:

• (a) fertilizers and supplements set out in Schedule II;

• (b) farm fertilizers, if

  • (i) they are mixed fertilizers,

  • (ii) the nutrients contained in them are in a mineral form and are obtained by extraction or by physical or chemical processes, and

  • (iii) they do not contain a pesticide;

• (c) supplements sold only for correction of soil acidity or alkalinity;

• (d) supplements that consist of seeds that are treated with a fertilizer or a supplement that

  • (i) is exempt from registration, or

  • (ii) is registered, and whose label indicates that it is for use in treating seeds;

• (e) peat, peat moss, sphagnum moss, tree bark and other fibrous organic matter that is represented for use only in improving the physical conditions of the soil;

• (f) customer-formula fertilizers;

• (g) specialty fertilizers, other than those referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition specialty fertilizers, that do not contain pesticides; and

• (h) potting soils that contain a fertilizer or a supplement that

  • (i) is exempt from registration, or

  • (ii) is registered, and whose label indicates that it is for use in potting soils.

(4) [Repealed, SOR/85-558, s. 3]