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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations 2019
13Selling and use of fruit netting
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13 Selling and use of fruit netting
(1) A person must not use fruit netting for the purposes of covering household fruit-trees, vegetable gardens and other fruiting plants unless it complies with subregulation (3).
(2) A person must not advertise or offer for sale fruit netting for the purpose of covering household fruit trees, vegetable gardens and other fruiting plants, however labelled, unless it complies with subregulation (3).
(3) For the purpose of this regulation, fruit netting must have a mesh-size of 5 mm x 5 mm or less at full stretch.