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Ordinance, 1997 AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1997 ORDINANCE XLIX OF 1997 An Ordinance further to amend the Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance, 1971 [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 2nd August, 1997] No.F.2(1)/97‑Pub., dated 2‑8‑1997.‑‑The following Ordinance made by the President is hereby published for general information:‑‑ 2. Amendment of section 3, Ordinance II of 1971.‑‑In the Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance, 1971 (II of 1971) hereinafter referred to as the said Ordinance, in section 3,‑‑ (i) for clause (a), the following shall be substituted, namely:‑‑ "(a) "adulterated" in relation to a pesticides means a pesticide with which spurious, deleterious or harmful substance has been mixed or which is wholly or mainly ineffective for the purpose for which it is intended."; and (b) in clause (r) the word "and" at the end shall be omitted and after clause (r) the following clause shall be inserted, namely:‑‑ "(rr) "sub‑standard" when used with reference to a pesticide, means any pesticide the strength or purity of which falls below the professed standard or quality which is expressed on its label or under which it is sold or a pesticide any valuable ingredient of which has been wholly or particularly extracted; and".