Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan e) Apply sprays in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations; f) Notify the Council as soon as practicable (within one hour) in the case of accidental discharge into a waterbody or coastal water; and g) Apply sprays in a manner which does not cause or is not likely to cause significant deposition into water. 39.1.7.1.3 Woody vegetation (except for plantation trees and noxious plants under the Noxious Plants Act 1978) shall not be removed by chemical means within 8 metres of any permanently flowing river, or any lake, wetland or the sea; 39.1.7.1.4 All reasonable care shall be exercised in the application of agrichemicals so as to ensure that spray drift does not pass beyond the legal boundary of the area of land on which the agrichemical is discharged. Reasonable care shall be deemed to have been exercised when the agrichemical has been mixed and applied in accordance with Part 5 of the Agrichemical Users’ Code of Practice (NZS 8409:1995: New Zealand Agrichemical Education Trust); 39.1.7.1.5 The following qualifications shall be held at all times after 1 January 2000 - a) Every person undertaking the application of agrichemicals shall hold or be under training for a current GROWSAFE Standard certificate or an equivalent qualification; b) Every contractor undertaking the land-based application of agrichemicals shall be a registered chemical applicator, or hold an equivalent qualification; and c) Every pilot undertaking the aerial application of agrichemicals shall hold a current GROWSAFE Agrichemical Rating, or an equivalent qualification. 39.1.7.1.6 The property owner or manager shall keep records of agrichemical use in accordance with Section 5.9 - Agrichemical Users’ Code of Practice (NZS 8409:1995: New Zealand Agrichemical Education Trust), and shall make such records available to the Council on request. 39.1.8 Deadly Poisons (as listed in the First Schedule of the Toxic Substances Regulations 1983) The hand application of deadly poisons on all land, and the aerial application on private land, in circumstances which may result in the deadly poison (or any other contaminant emanating as a result of natural processes from the deadly poison) entering water, is a Permitted Activity subject to the following conditions. 39.1.8.1 Conditions a) The application shall be undertaken in a manner which does not exceed any rate, or contravene any other requirement, specified in the deadly poison manufacturer’s instructions and any instructions attached to or enclosed with the product; b) The application shall be for the purpose of eradicating, modifying or controlling vertebrate animals only, and shall not include the disposal of any deadly poison onto or into land; and 39 - 8