Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1987
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1987/547 |
| Year | 1987 |
1987 No. 547
SEEDS
The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1987
Made 20th March 1987
Laid before Parliament 2nd April 1987
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 on them by sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3) and (8) and 36 as read with section 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(1), and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 16(1) of that Act with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force for the purposes of this regulation and regulations 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 on 23rd April 1987 and for all other purposes on 1st March 1988.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in the Seed Potatoes Regulations 1984(3).Amendment of the Seed Potatoes Regulations 1984
2. The Seed Potatoes Regulations 1984 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
Amendment of regulation 2(1)
3. In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation) in paragraph (a) of the definition of “package or container” for the words “any bag or sack” there shall be substituted the words “any bag, box or sack”.
Amendment of regulation 7(1)
4. In regulation 7(1) (Classification of seed potatoes) for the Class ““Elite”” there shall be substituted the Classes ““Elite 1”, “Elite 2”, “Elite 3””.
Amendment of Schedule 3
5. In Schedule 3, paragraph 2 (Classification of basic seed potatoes)–
(a) in the entry relating to Class Super Elite 1 (SE1) in column 2 for “VTSC” there shall be substituted “VTSC1 or VTSC2”;
(b) for the entry relating to Class Elite (E) there shall be substituted the following entry:–
“Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Class |
Requirements |
Tolerances |
Elite (E) |
The seed potatoes shall be seed potatoes derived from a stock of basic seed potatoes (other than Class AA) classified as such in the year preceding the planting of the crop, provided that any of the above seed potatoes may also be derived from seed potatoes classified under a scheme or other arrangements referred to in paragraph 4(1)(c)(ii) or (iii) of Schedule 1 as being seed potatoes which could be entered for the production of further seed potatoes for classification. |
(i) deviations from variety and type and ground keepers - 0.05%. (ii) leafroll and severe mosaic (including tobacco... |
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