Wart Disease of Potatoes (General Licence) (Scotland) Order, 1954
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1954/235 |
1954 No. 235 (S. 24)
The Wart Disease of Potatoes (General Licence) (Scotland) Order, 19542ndMarch 1954
4thMarch 1954
10thMarch 1954
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 2 of the Destructive Insects Act, 1877(a), as amended by section 1 of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1907(b) and section 1 of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1927(c), respectively, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following Order:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Wart Disease of Potatoes (General Licence) (Scotland) Order, 1954 and shall come into operation on the 10th day of March, 1954.
(2) This Order shall be read as one with the Wart Disease of Potatoes (Scotland) Order of 1941(d).
2.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Article 3 of the Wart Disease of Potatoes (Scotland) Order of 1941, it shall not be an offence under the said Order, in any case where the conditions specified in paragraph (2) of this Article are satisfied, for any person to plant, or cause or permit to be planted,
(a) in any holding not exceeding half an acre in extent in his occupation or under his charge, or
(b) in any holding being a private garden in his occupation or under his charge,
any potatoes which are not of an approved immune variety.
(2) The conditions referred to in the foregoing paragraph are as follows:—
(a) that the holding is not a holding on which Wart Disease exists or is known to have existed at any time;
(b) that the potatoes planted are of any of the following first early varieties, namely—Duke of York (Midlothian Early), Eclipse, Epicure, Harbinger, May Queen, Myatt's Ashleaf, Ninetyfold, Sharpe's Express and Sharpe's Victor; and
(c) that the resultant crops are lifted:—
(i) not later than 31st August in the year of planting in the counties of Aberdeen, Angus, Banff, Caithness, Inverness, Kincardine, Moray, Nairn, Orkney, Perth, Ross & Cromarty, Sutherland and Zetland; and
(ii) not later than 14th August in the year of planting in any other county in Scotland.
James Stuart, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Dated this 2nd day of March, 1954.
St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh, 1.
(a) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 68.
(b) 7 Edw. 7. c. 4.
(c) 17 & 18...
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