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SEEDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 2

Supplementary provisions as to seeds regulations.

2.(1) Seeds regulations may include provisions as to the packets, bags, trays
or other containers in which seeds may be sold or delivered to purchasers, and
requirements as to the marking of such containers.

(2) Seeds regulations may in particular

(a)require information to be given in the prescribed manner (which may include
the giving of it on any label, container or package) as regards seeds which
are sold or offered or exposed for sale and, in particular, require the seller
of any seeds to deliver a statement containing the prescribed particulars to
the purchaser within the time limited by the regulations,

(b)require any of the particulars contained in a statement to be delivered to
a purchaser or other person under seeds regulations to be particulars
ascertained on a test of the seeds,

(c)prohibit the selling, or the offering or exposing for sale, of seeds which
contain more than a prescribed proportion of weed seeds, or of weed seeds of a
prescribed kind,

[(cc)prohibit or restrict the importation or removal into Northern Ireland, or
the selling or the offering or exposing for sale, of seeds which contain any
seeds of weeds of a kind specified in the regulations as being capable of
causing injury to agriculture in Northern Ireland,]

(d)prohibit persons from using, in relation to seeds which are sold, or are
offered or exposed for sale, a prescribed name or designation or description
except where the seeds have been grown or selected under the prescribed
conditions,

(e)require persons who deal in seeds to supply the Ministry with information
as to, and to keep records of,

(i)transactions in seeds,

(ii)statutory statements given or received by them, and other statements or
invoices given or received by them in connection with the sale of seeds,

<(iii)processes or treatments applied to seeds, and


<(iv)the results of tests of seeds,


(e)and authorise officers of the Ministry to call for production of the
records,

(f)where persons who deal in seeds also grow seeds, require those persons to
supply the Ministry with information as to, and to keep records of

(i)[areas] sown, and

(ii)the yields of the crops,

(f)and authorise officers of the Ministry to call for production of the
records,

(g)regulate the procedure to be observed at, and the conduct of, an
official testing station referred to in section 7(1) and other establishments
licensed pursuant to regulations made under paragraph (i),

(h)regulate the manner in which any tests are to be made for the purposes of
this Act,

(i)provide for the licensing by the Ministry of establishments for the testing
of seeds, other than an official testing station, and authorise the Ministry
to charge a fee of such amount as may be approved by the Ministry of Finance
for, and to attach conditions to, any such licence, and to make the conditions
enforceable by withdrawal of the licence or by making a breach of any of the
conditions an offence against seeds regulations.

(3) In prescribing the manner in which samples are to be taken for the
purposes of any provision in this Act or for the purposes of seeds
regulations, the regulations

(a)may impose conditions as to the persons authorised to take samples and the
places where they may be taken,

(b)may require the person taking a sample to give part of it to the owner of
the seeds or to some other person, may prescribe the manner in which the
sample is to be divided into parts and may impose duties as respects the
marking or labelling and the preservation of the parts of the sample, and

(c)may provide for the identification, by the labelling or marking of their
container or by some other method, of seeds from which a sample has been
taken.

(4) Seeds regulations

(a)may exempt, or authorise the Ministry to exempt, any person or class of
persons, or persons generally, from compliance with any of the provisions of
the regulations, and may provide that the exemptions are to be, or may be
made, subject to conditions, and

(b)may contain transitional provisions consequent on the repeal of the Seeds
Act 1920 by this Act.

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