The Seed Marketing (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 1242 (W. 294)

Seeds, Wales

The Seed Marketing (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Made

15 December 2016

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

19 December 2016

Coming into force

11 January 2017

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3) and (4) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(1), and now vested in them(2), make the following Regulations.

In accordance with section 16(1) of that Act, the Welsh Ministers have consulted with representatives of such interests as appear to the Welsh Ministers to be concerned.

(1)

1964 (c. 14). Section 16(1) was amended and section 16(1A) was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 5.

(2)

See section 38(1) for a definition of “the Minister”. Under the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272) article 2(1) and Schedule 1, the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 were so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State and under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1, the functions transferred to the Secretary of State by the 1978 Order were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales. By virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) those functions are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.