On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:11:24 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wibbled:

Rusty Hinge wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:
Jeff Layman
wibbled on Wednesday 07 April 2010 17:21


But if you use the ammonium sulphamate from that pack as a stump
killer, you
will be doing something illegal, as daft as it may sound. In fact,
AFAIAA, you are only allowed to use approved products for designated
"pesticide"

Sod that, already ordered

uses. If you use anything else (eg coffee grounds to deal with
slugs), then
you risk prosecution.

What you have to realise is that there are now so many statues on the
book that criminalise perfectly innocuous activities that the only way
to remain sane is forget the law and use common sense - this has
become and will remain my approach to life in this country until such
a time that sanity is restored (if ever).

Do you feel happy that it is a non indictable criminal offence for you
to replace one of your windows or an external door without informing
local building control, to quote one example?

Oh dear! Oh dear oh dear! And I've replaced my back door *AND* my front
door,,,

And I've a box full of old mains cable waiting for something-or-other,
and a gas cooker to put in the kitchen.

Who's got the duty handcuffs this week?

People don't 'alf panic about this kind of thing...or perhaps there's a
hidden political agenda. I need chapter and verse before believing most
of these Daily-Mail-type tales: you may not (perhaps for good reasons of
public safety or consumer protection) be allowed to _sell_ certain
things for certain purposes, but that doesn't necessarily mean you
aren't free to _use_ said things for said purposes.

The claim that prosecution could follow tipping coffee grounds on the
garden is almost too silly to reply to.

But "they" can put you in prison for upto 6 months with a fine upto 5k
(or whatever the scale is this week), call you a criminal and have your
DNA (as a result of it being a non indictable, ie Magistrate tryable
offence) for failing to notify them that you are installing a
replacement external window. Not Daily Mail - Building Regs, + Approved
Document L...

But to be fair, they don't do that to members of the public doing their
own houses - occasionally they use that statue to throw the book at a
dodgey tradesman. But legally, they could bust you...



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Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.