The Vegetable Seeds Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2010
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2010/425 |
SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2010 No. 425
SEEDS
The Vegetable Seeds Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2010
Made - - - - 30th November 2010
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 2nd December 2010
Coming into force - - 31st December 2010
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by
sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3), (4) and (5), 17(1), (2), (3) and (4) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and
Seeds Act 1964(a) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with the section 16(1) of that Act they have consulted with representatives of such
interests as appear to them to be concerned.
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Vegetable Seeds Amendment (Scotland)
Regulations 2010 and come into force on 31st December 2010.
(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.
Amendment to the Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993
2. The Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993(b) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to
13.
Amendment to regulation 3
3.—(1) In regulation 3(1) (interpretation)—
(a) after the definition of “the Act” insert—
““additional region” means the region for seed production approved by the Ministers
for the purposes of the second paragraph of Article 13.1 (additional regions) of
Commission Directive 2009/145;
“Amateur Variety” means a variety of vegetable species with no intrinsic value for
commercial crop production which is developed for growing under particular
conditions and is contained within the National List;”;
(a) 1964 c.14. Section 16 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4,
paragraph 5(1) and (2). See section 38(1) for the definition of “the Minister”. The functions of the Secretary of State were
transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).
(b) S.I. 1993/2008; as amended in relation to Scotland by S.I. 1996/1452, 1997/616, 1999/1863, S.S.I. 2000/250,
S.I. 2001/3510, S.S.I. 2007/305 and S.S.I. 2010/219.
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