Seeds (Scotland) Amendment Regulations, 1951
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1951 No. 1007 (S. 57)
SEEDS, SCOTLAND
The Seeds (Scotland) Amendment Regulations, 19515thJune 1951
6thJune 1951
1stAugust 1951
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsection (1) of section 7 of the Seeds Act, 1920(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf and after consultation with representatives of the interests concerned (and as respects forest tree seeds after consultation with the Forestry Commissioners), I hereby make the following regulations:—
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Seeds (Scotland) Amendment Regulations, 1951, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1951.
(2) These regulations, the Seeds (Scotland) Regulations, 1922(b), (hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations") and the Seeds (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations, 1944(c), shall be read as one and may be cited together as the Seeds (Scotland) Regulations, 1922 to 1951.
2. For Regulation 7 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following regulation:—
"7.—(1) "Pure seed" means, with the exception of seeds or pieces of seeds of legumes and crucifers from which the seed coat is entirely removed, whole seeds of the kind of which the parcel purports to consist, including any such seeds which are sprouted, shrivelled, cracked, insect-damaged, diseased, or otherwise injured and pieces of such seeds larger than one half of the original size of the whole seed:
Provided that when applied to those species, varieties, stocks or strains of plants the seeds of which cannot be distinguished from one another by expert macroscopic examination, the use of the term "pure seed" does not imply that the seed is genuine or true to name.
(2) "Impurities" means all other seeds or matter, and includes—
(a) all whole seeds of crop plants or useful species, (not being seeds of the kind of which the parcel purports to consist), including any
(a) 10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 54.
(b) S.R. & O. 1922 (No. 866) p. 971.
(c) S.R. & O. 1944 (No. 668) I, p. 908.
such seeds which are sprouted, shrivelled, cracked, insect-damaged, diseased, or otherwise injured, and pieces of such seeds larger than one half of the original size of the whole seed;
(b) weed seeds, being seeds or bulbils or pieces thereof of plants commonly regarded as weeds, or at any time prescribed or specified as injurious weeds by or under any enactment; and
(c) inert matter, being seedlike structures from both crop and weed plants, and other matter as...
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