Statutory Instruments
SEEDS
Made
4th July 1991
Laid before Parliament
25th July 1991
Coming into force
15th August 1991
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1) and (8) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf(2), after consultation in accordance with the said section 16(1) with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Oil and Fibre Plant Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 15th August 1991.
2.—(1) The Oil and Fibre Plant Seeds Regulations 1985(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provision of this regulation.
In paragraph (3) of regulation 3 (interpretation) in the definition of “Commercial Seed” the words “or white mustard” shall be omitted.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 1st July 1991.
L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Strathclyde
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
4th July 1991
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
4th July 1991
(This is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations which further amend the Oil and Fibre Plant Seeds Regulations 1985 implement Article 3 of Commission Directive 86/109/EEC (OJ No. L93, 8.4.86, p.21) as amended by Commission Directive 89/424/EEC (OJ No. L196, 12.7.89, p.50) to the extent that white mustard is deleted from the list of seeds to which the “Commercial Seed” category applies (regulation 2).
1964 c. 14; section 16 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4 and Schedule 4, paragraph 5(1) and (3);see section 38(1) for the definition of “the Ministers”.
In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.