You will need this approval if you intend to work as a hydroponic industry employee and sell prescribed hydroponic equipment. Hydroponic equipment is equipment that is used for the cultivation of plants without soil.
Prescribed hydroponic equipment means:
- metal halide lights, high pressure sodium lights and mercury vapour lights over 400 watts
- light-emitting diode (LED) lights of 100 watts or greater
- ballast boxes for use with metal halide, high pressure sodium or mercury vapour lights or LED lights of 100 watts or greater
- devices including control gear, lamp mounts and reflectors designed to amplify light or heat and for use with metal halide, high pressure sodium or mercury vapour lights or LED lights of 100 watts or greater
- carbon filters designed to filter air within a room, from one area of a building to another or from inside to outside
- units designed to contain plants and rotate around a light source so that the plants grow hydroponically while being exposed to light or heat or both.
