The Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Registration

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not carry on business as a supplier unless he is registered as such by the Department.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the Department shall maintain a register of persons carrying on business as a supplier.

(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a supplier marketing only to persons who are not professionally engaged in the production or sale of ornamental plants or propagating material.

(4) An application for registration under this regulation shall be made to the Department in writing and shall be accompanied by the following information—

(a) the name of the applicant;

(b) the address of the main premises at which the applicant carries on or intends to carry on business as a supplier;

(c) the activities which the applicant carries on or intends to carry on which are or will be covered by these Regulations.

(5) Registration of a supplier on the register referred to in regulation 16 of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993(1) is deemed to constitute registration under and for the purposes of this regulation.

(6) A supplier registered under this regulation shall keep records of his sales and purchases of propagating material and shall retain them for a period of not less than 12 months from the date of the sale or purchase, as the case may be.

(1)

S.R. 1993 No. 256 as amended by S.R. 1994 No. 28, S.R. 1995 No. 250, S.R. 1995 No. 494, S.R. 1996 No. 204, S.R. 1996 No. 249, S.R. 1997 No. 110, S.R. 1997 No. 397, S.R. 1998 No. 16, S.R. 1998 No. 146, S.R. 1998 No. 315 and S.R. 1999 No. 24