SEEDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965

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SEEDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 1



1.(1) The Ministry of Agriculture (in this Act referred to as "the Ministry"),
after consultation with representatives of such interests as appear to it to
be concerned, may make regulations for the purposes

(a)of ensuring that reliable and adequate information is afforded as to the
nature, condition and quality of seeds which are sold or are for sale,

(b)of preventing the sale of seeds which are deleterious, and or preventing
the sale of seeds which have not been tested for purity and germination, or
which are of a variety the performance of which has not been subjected to
trials,

(c)of preventing the spread of plant disease [, or of weeds which are capable
of causing injury to agriculture,] by [means] of seeds, and

(d)of regulating the descriptions under which seeds are sold.

(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) shall be subject to negative
resolution and shall be known as seeds regulations.

[(2A) Seeds regulations may further make provisions for regulating the
marketing, or the importation or exportation, of seeds or any related
activities (whether by reference to officially published lists of permitted
varieties or otherwise), and may in that connection include provision

(a)for the registration or licensing of persons engaged in the seeds industry
or related activities;

(b)for ensuring that seeds on any official list remain true to variety;

(c)for the keeping and inspection of records and the giving of information;

(d)for conferring rights of appeal to the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal
established by the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964;

(e)for excluding, extending or modifying, in relation to or in connection with
any provision of the regulations, the operation of any provision made by the
following sections of this Act and for the charging of fees.]

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SEEDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 1