The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2000

Extension and modification of provisions of the Act

21.—(1) In connection with the provisions of these Regulations the operation of the provisions of sections 25 and 26 of the Act shall be modified or, as the case may be, excluded in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) Section 25(1) of the Act (powers of entry) shall be modified as if for the purposes of that section any reference to “premises” were a reference to premises as defined in these Regulations relating to seed potatoes and any reference to a subsection containing a reference to premises were a reference to that subsection as so modified.

(3) Section 25(1) of the Act shall be modified as if the reference to subsection (4) of that section were a reference to that subsection as modified by paragraph (4) of this regulation.

(4) In section 25(4) of the Act the words after “potatoes” (where it first occurs) to the end shall be omitted.

(5) In section 26 of the Act (use of samples in criminal proceedings) subsections (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9) shall be omitted.

(1)

Section 25 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 3, Part III and Schedule 4, paragraph 5; Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), Schedule 6, paragraph 16.