Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004
56Damage by spray drift
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56 Damage by spray drift (1) A person must not carry out agricultural chemical spraying that injuriously affects: (a) plants or stock outside the target area; or (b) land outside the target area so that growing plants or keeping stock on that land can reasonably be expected to result in a concentration of the substance in agricultural produce that exceeds the standard prescribed by the Regulations for the concentration of the substance in the agricultural produce.
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004 43 (2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1)(a) that the plants or stock have no commercial value.