Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations 1973
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1973/1108 |
1973 No. 1108
SEEDS
The Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations 197320thJune 1973
28thJune 1973
1stJuly 1973
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 vested in them by subsections (1), (1A), (2), (3), (4) and (8) of section 16 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(a) as amended by section 4(1) of, and subparagraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the European Communities Act 1972(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 Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations 1973, and shall come into operation on 1st July 1973.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these regulations "the principal regulations" means the Forest Reproductive Material Regulations 1973(c).
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(d) shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Amendment of the principal regulations
3. For paragraph B of Part II of Schedule 3 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
"B. Maximum Weights of Lots Sampled and Minimum Weights of, or Minimum Numbers of, Seeds in Samples to be Submitted for Testing
In relation to seed of the species mentioned in the table below, the maximum weight of seed in a lot sampled and the minimum weight or the minimum number of seeds in a sample submitted for testing shall be as set out in the table below:—
(a) 1964 c. 14.
(b) 1972 c. 68.
(c) S.I. 1973/944 (1973 II, p. 2843).
(d) 1889 c. 63.
Minimum Maximum
Species sample weight lot weight
(gm) (kg)
(a) Abies alba Mill. … … … … … 240 1000
Fagus sylvatica L. … … … … … 1000 1000
Larix decidua Mill. … … … … 25 1000
Larix leptolepis (Sieb. & Zucc.) Gord. … 25 1000
Picea abies Karst. … … … … … 25 1000
Picea sitchensis Trautv. et Mey. … … 25 1000
Pinus nigra Arn. … … … … … 80 1000
Pinus sylvestris L. … … … … 40 1000
Pinus strobus L. … … … … … 90 1000
Pseudotsuga taxifolia (Poir.) Britt. … … 60 1000
Minimum Maximum
number of lot weight
Species seeds in (kg)
sample
(b) Quercus borealis Michx. … … … … 500 5000
Quercus pedunculata Ehrh. … … … … 500 5000
Quercus sessiliflora Sal....To continue reading
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