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Weeds Act 1959

Index Weeds Act 1959

The Weeds Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. II c. 54) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regarding the control of several injurious weed species throughout the UK. [1]

29 relations: Act of Parliament, Alkaloid, Annual plant, Anti-social behaviour order, Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Biennial plant, Biocide, Cirsium arvense, Cirsium vulgare, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Dow Chemical Company, Fallopia japonica, Flowering plant, Hepatotoxicity, Heracleum mantegazzianum, Impatiens glandulifera, Insect, Jacobaea vulgaris, List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1940–1959, Oxalic acid, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Perennial plant, Ragwort Control Act 2003, Royal assent, Rumex crispus, Rumex obtusifolius, Secretary of State (United Kingdom), Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Sheep shearer.

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Alkaloid

Alkaloids are a class of naturally occurring chemical compounds that mostly contain basic nitrogen atoms.

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Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one year, and then dies.

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Anti-social behaviour order

An anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) was a civil order made in the United Kingdom against a person who had been shown, on the balance of evidence, to have engaged in anti-social behaviour.

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Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and expanded law enforcement powers in addressing anti-social behaviour.

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Biennial plant

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle.

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Biocide

A biocide is defined in the European legislation as a chemical substance or microorganism intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means.

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Cirsium arvense

Cirsium arvense is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere.

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Cirsium vulgare

Cirsium vulgare, the spear thistle, bull thistle, or common thistle, is a species of the Asteraceae genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa (Atlas Mountains).

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Dow Chemical Company

The Dow Chemical Company, commonly referred to as Dow, is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States, and the predecessor of the merged company DowDuPont.

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Fallopia japonica

Fallopia japonica, synonyms Reynoutria japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum, commonly known as Asian knotweed or Japanese knotweed, is a large, herbaceous perennial plant of the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Hepatotoxicity

Hepatotoxicity (from hepatic toxicity) implies chemical-driven liver damage.

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Heracleum mantegazzianum

Heracleum mantegazzianum, commonly known as giant hogweed, cartwheel-flower, giant cow parsnip, hogsbane or giant cow parsley, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.

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Impatiens glandulifera

Impatiens glandulifera is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Jacobaea vulgaris

Jacobaea vulgaris, syn.

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List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1940–1959

This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1940–1959.

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Oxalic acid

Oxalic acid is an organic compound with the formula C2H2O4.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Ragwort Control Act 2003

The Ragwort Control Act 2003 (c 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Royal assent

Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.

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Rumex crispus

Rumex crispus, the curly dock, curled dock or yellow dock, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Europe and Western Asia.

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Rumex obtusifolius

Rumex obtusifolius, commonly known as bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, bluntleaf dock, dock leaf or butter dock, is a perennial weed in the family Polygonaceae.

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Secretary of State (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a secretary of state (SofS) is a Cabinet minister in charge of a government department (though not all departments are headed by a secretary of state, e.g. HM Treasury is headed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer).

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Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or informally Environment Secretary or DEFRA Secretary, is a United Kingdom Cabinet level position, in charge of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the successor to the positions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

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Sheep shearer

A sheep shearer is a worker who uses (hand-powered)-blade or machine shears to remove wool from domestic sheep during crutching or shearing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds_Act_1959

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