This regulation defines certain herbicides as allowable or prescribed pesticides and allows people to use prescribed pesticides only for listed purposes.
Non-Essential Pesticide Use Regulation, M.R. 286/2014 The Environment Act , C.C.S.M. c. E125 Regulation 286/2014 Registered December 17, 2014 bilingual version (HTML) Definitions 1(1) The following definitions apply in this regulation. "Act" means The Environment Act . («  Loi  ») "allowable pesticide" means a herbicide described in subsection 1(3). (« pesticide autorisé ») "herbicide" means a chemical or biological agent or other product or substance registered under the Pest Control Products Act (Canada) that is manufactured, represented or used as a means for destroying, preventing, controlling or mitigating weeds or other plant life. (« herbicide ») "inspector" means an inspector as defined in The Noxious Weeds Act. (« inspecteur ») Prescribed pesticides 1(2) For the purpose of subsection 40.10(1) of the Act, every herbicide is a prescribed pesticide, unless it is an allowable pesticide. Allowable pesticides 1(3) For the purpose of section 40.8 of the Act, the herbicides set out in the Schedule to this regulation are allowable pesticides. Exceptions to prescribed pesticide ban 2 For the purpose of clause 40.6(e) of the Act, a person may use a prescribed pesticide for the following purposes or activities: (a) to destroy, prevent or control a species of plant that is poisonous to humans by touch, such as poison ivy, poison sumac and giant hogweed; (b) to destroy, prevent or control an alien invasive plant species that may negatively affect the health of humans, the environment or the economy; (c) to destroy noxious weeds under authority of The Noxious Weeds Act , if the pesticide is applied by an inspector or a person acting under the direction of an inspector; (d) to maintain specialty turf that is used for lawn bowling, lawn tennis or cricket; (e) to maintain fields used by professional sports teams or fields used in internationally sanctioned sporting events; (f) in a scientific experiment or for research purposes, if the director has given prior written approval to its use. 3 [Repealed] M.R. 181/2022 Coming into force 4(1) This regulation, except section 3, comes into force on the same day that The Environment Amendment Act (Reducing Pesticide Exposure) , S.M. 2014, c. 21, comes into force. 4(2) Section 3 comes into force on May 1, 2015. SCHEDULE (Subsection 1(3)) LIST OF ALLOWABLE PESTICIDES A herbicide that contains any of the following active ingredients is prescribed as an allowable pesticide : – acetic acid – ammonium soaps of fatty acids – Chondrostereum purpureum strain PFC2139 – citric acid – corn gluten meal – fatty acid – iron (ferrous or ferric) sulfate – iron, if present as FeHEDTA – lactic acid – liquid corn gluten – Phoma macrostoma strain 94-44B – Sclerotinia minor – soap (potassium salts of fatty acid) – sodium chloride – Streptomyces acidiscabies strain RL-110T and Thaxtomin A