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Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1315

The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1989

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1989 No. 1315

SEEDS

The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made26th July 1989
Laid before Parliament11th August 1989
Coming into force1st September 1989

    The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of state for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3), (4) and (8), 36 and 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with the said section 16(1) with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:
    Title and commencement
        1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st September 1989.
    Amendment
        2.    (1)  The Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1985[2] shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

        (2)  In regulation 3(1) (interpretation) in the definition of "small package" after the word "turnip" there shall be inserted the word "gourd".

        (3)  In regulation 5 (marketing of seeds) after paragraph (11) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
            "(12)    Seeds which have been produced and packaged in a Member State other than the United Kingdom, notwithstanding that they have not been officially certified as Certified Seed in that Member State, may be imported but shall not be marketed in the United Kingdom until they have been officially certified in the United Kingdom.".


        (4)  In regulation 9(8) (labelling of packages) after the words "variety of the seeds" there shall be inserted the words "from which it shall be separated by a dash".

        (5)  For Schedule 1 (kinds of seeds to which the Regulations apply) there shall be substituted the following—

Notes:

[1] 1964 c. 14; section 16 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and paragraph 5(1), (2) and (3) of Schedule 4; section 38(1) (as amended by S.I. 1978/272) contains a definition of "the Ministers" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

[2] S.I. 1985/979, amended by S.I. 1987/1093.

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