The Seed Potatoes (Crop Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 No. 59

Citation, commencement and interpretation N.I.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Seed Potatoes (Crop Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2009.

(2) In these Regulations, “the Department” refers to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

[F1 (3) In these regulations—

“seed potatoes of Union grade PBTC” means seed potatoes which fulfil the conditions for Union grade PBTC specified in Table 1 in Schedule 4 to the Seed Potatoes Regulations;

“the Seed Potatoes Regulations” means the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 1(3) substituted (14.4.2016) by The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/190), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(a) (with reg. 1(2))

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1(1)

[F2 Fees N.I.

2.— (1) Every person who makes an application to the Department for certification of seed potatoes under regulation 10(4) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Seed Potatoes Regulations shall forward—

(a) in respect of an application where the crop is intended to produce seed potatoes, other than seed potatoes of Union grade PBTC, the appropriate fee specified in column 2 of the Table in Part 1 of the Schedule; or

(b) in respect of an application where the crop is intended to produce seed potatoes of Union grade PBTC, the appropriate fee specified in column 2 of the Table in Part 2 of the Schedule.

(2) The fees specified—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) shall accompany the application for certification of seed potatoes;

(b) in paragraph (1)(b), shall be payable within one month of demand by the Department.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Reg. 2 substituted (14.4.2016) by The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/190), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(b) (with reg. 1(2))

F3 3.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F3 Reg. 3 omitted (14.4.2016) by virtue of The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/190), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(c) (with reg. 1(2))

Revocation N.I.

4.  The following Regulations are revoked—

(a) The Seed Potatoes (Crop Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1); and

(b) The Seed Potatoes (Crop Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(2).

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 4 in operation at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1(1)

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 20th February 2009.

Liam McKibben

A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development