1992 No. 3078

SEEDS

The Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

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), (4) and (8), 29(2) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 19641 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations 1992, and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

Amendment of the principal Regulations2

The Forest Reproductive Material Regulations 19772 shall be amended by omitting from regulation 14 the words from “Such official certificate” to the end of the regulation.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 1st December 1992.

John Selwyn GummerMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Hector MonroParliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
David HuntSecretary of State for Wales

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Forest Reproductive Material Regulations 1977, so as to remove the requirement for an importer or consignee of forest reproductive material, imported from a Member State of the European Communities, to produce a certificate of provenance to the customs authorities.