The Cereal Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005

[F1When applications may be refusedS

3.  The Scottish Ministers may refuse to issue an official certificate in respect of a seed lot if it appears to them that–

(a)a sample taken from the seed lot for the purposes of an examination to ascertain whether the seed lot meets the appropriate standards in Part IV of this Schedule has not been taken in accordance with regulation 15(1A);

(b)an examination of a post control plot sown with a sample of the seed lot shows that the crop does not meet the appropriate standards specified in Part III of this Schedule;

(c)there has been any breach of seeds regulations in relation to the seed lots in respect of which the application for an official certificate has been made.]