22.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall seal a package of officially certified pre-basic, basic or CS seed except a person to whom paragraph (5) applies.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the sealing of a small EC package of officially certified basic or CS seed.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), no person shall reseal a package (including a small EC package) of officially certified pre-basic, basic or CS seed except a person to whom paragraph (5) applies.
(4) Paragraph (3) shall not apply where a package has been resealed which had previously been opened by the final consumer of the seed for the purpose of using some of the seed in the package.
[F1(4A) No person shall seal or reseal a package of test and trial seed except a person to whom paragraph (5) applies.]
(5) This paragraph applies to—
(a)an authorised officer and any person being supervised by such a person, and
(b)a licensed seed sampler and any person being supervised by such a person.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 22(4A) inserted (23.9.2006) by The Seed (England) (Amendments for Tests and Trials etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2314), regs. 1, 2(6)