Beet Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1979
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1979/1004 |
| Year | 1979 |
1979 No. 1004
SEEDS
The Beet Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 19793rdAugust 1979
14thAugust 1979
10thSeptember 1979
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), (5) and (8), 17(1), (2), (3) and (4), 24(5), 26(2) and (3) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(a) and now vested in them, (b) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Beet Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1979, and shall come into operation on 10th September 1979.
Amendment
2. The Beet Seeds Regulations 1976(c) are hereby amended in the manner and to the extent prescribed in the Schedule to these regulations.
(a) 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.
(b) By the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No 1) Order 1978: S.I. 1978/272.
(c) S.I. 1976/1068.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 25th July 1979.
Peter Walker, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
(L.S.)
George Younger, Secretary of State for Scotland
26th July 1979.
Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales
3rd August 1979.
SCHEDULE
AMENDMENTS TO THE BEET SEEDS REGULATIONS 1976
1. In regulation 3(2) —
for the definition of "maintainer" there shall be substituted:
"maintainer" means a person who is indicated in a National List or in the Common Catalogue as responsible for maintaining the plant variety with the morphological, physiological or other characteristics to which regard was had when the plant variety was entered in the List or the Common Catalogue;
for the definition of "the Minister" and "the Ministers" there shall be substituted:
"the Minister" means, as respects England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, as respects Scotland or Wales, the Secretary of State, and "the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly;
in the definition of "National List", for "1973" there shall be substituted "1979";
in the definition of "small...
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