PESTICIDES: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

PESTICIDES: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

PESTICIDES (CESS) ORDER

under s. 13

G.N. 40/2020

1.    Citation

    This Order may be cited as the Pesticides (Cess) Order.

2.    Pesticides cess

    (1) The Board shall impose a levy to be known as “pesticides cess” on all importation into, or manufacturing in, Malawi of a pesticide.

    (2) The pesticides cess referred to under subparagraph (1) shall be levied at the rate of—

    (a)    for imported pesticides, 0.05 per cent of landed costs; and

    (b)    for pesticides manufactured in Malawi, 0.05 per cent of production costs of the pesticide.

    (3) All the monies due and payable in respect of the pesticides cess levied under this paragraph shall be payable to the Board, at the time of applying for a permit to manufacture a pesticide or import a pesticide.

PESTICIDES REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    REGULATION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
REGISTRATION OF PESTICIDES

    3.    Application for registration

    4.    Processing of application

    5.    Registration of a pesticide

    6.    Invalid application

    7.    Form of certificate of registration

    8.    Simplified assessment

    9.    Application for permit to import pesticides

    10.    Form of permit

PART III
PRESENTATION OF PESTICIDES

    11.    Packaging

    12.    Labelling

    13.    Information to be contained on a label

    14.    Label to bear a colour band

    15.    Hazard statement on labels

    16.    Terms not to be printed on label

    17.    Household pesticides

    18.    Residues and time

    19.    Advertising

    20.    Hazard statement on advertisements

    21.    Puffery or misleading advertisement

PART IV
MANUFACTURING, IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION, SALE, STORAGE, APPLICATION AND PACKAGING OF PESTICIDES

    22.    Application for a licence to manufacture or a permit to export or transport pesticides

    23.    Application for a commercial pesticide applicator’s licence

    24.    Application for a sale or storage licence

    25.    Additional authorization to sale licence, etc.

    26.    Form of sale or storage licence

    27.    Persons to whom licence may be issued

    28.    Display of licence, etc.

PART V
CONTROL OF STOCKPILING, POLLUTION AND SMUGGLING OF PESTICIDES

    29.    Temporary ban

    30.    Smuggling prevention

    31.    Extension of shelf life

    32.    Declaration of stockpiling

    33.    Declaration of contamination

    34.    Pesticides register

PART VI
MISCELLANEOUS

    35.    General penalty

    36.    Fees

    37.    Administrative fines

    38.    Revocation

        FIRST SCHEDULE

        SECOND SCHEDULE

        THIRD SCHEDULE

        FOURTH SCHEDULE

        FIFTH SCHEDULE

        SIXTH SCHEDULE

        SEVENTH SCHEDULE

        EIGHTH SCHEDULE

G.N. 11/2023

PESTICIDES REGULATIONS

under s. 53

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Citation

    These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides Regulations.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “biopesticide” means a substance derived from nature, such as microbial or biochemical which include botanicals (plant extracts) and semiochemicals, that may be formulated and applied in a manner similar to a conventional chemical pesticide and that is used for pest control;

    “botanical pesticide” means a botanical substance that consists of one or more components found in plants and obtained by subjecting plants or parts of plants of the same species to a process such as pressing, milling, crushing, distillation or extraction and the process may include further concentration, purification or blending, provided that the chemical nature of the components is not intentionally modified or altered by chemical or microbial processes;

    “consignment” means a pesticide lot as per import permit;

    “country of origin” means a country where the pesticide was manufactured or formulated;

    “microbial pesticide” means a microorganism, including a protozoan, fungus, bacterium, virus, or other microscopic self-replicating biotic entity and any associated metabolites, to which the effects of pest control are attributed;

    “obsolete pesticides” means stocked pesticides that can no longer be used for their original purpose or any other purpose and therefore require disposal;

    “permit” means a permit issued in accordance with section 20 of the Act, authorizing the importation, exportation and transportation of a pesticide;

    “pesticide waste” means pesticides, empty pesticide containers and materials contaminated with pesticides that are no longer wanted or needed;

    “sales licence” means a licence issued in accordance with the provisions of section 25 of the Act;

    “smuggling” means bringing pesticides whether registered or unregistered into Malawi, with the intention to deprive the Government of Malawi of any revenue or to defeat any of the provisions of the Act, these Regulations or any other written law;

    “stockpiling” means inessential gradual accumulation of obsolete pesticides or used pesticide containers or materials contaminated with pesticides;

    “storage licence” means a licence issued in accordance with the provisions of section 25 of the Act; and

    “transportation” includes conveying, ferrying, moving, relocating, shifting and shipping of pesticides.

PART II
REGISTRAITON OF PESTICIDES

3.    Application for registration

    (1) An application for registration or re-registration of a pesticide in…