PART 4Licensing

Operations requiring a licence from the Secretary of State20

1

Any person carrying out any of the following operations must be licensed to do so by the Secretary of State—

a

marketing seed;

b

packing, sealing or labelling seed;

c

re-packing, re-sealing or re-labelling seed;

d

preparing mixtures of seed for marketing;

e

cleaning, treating or in any other way processing seed intended for marketing.

2

But the requirement for a licence does not apply in relation to the marketing of—

a

small packages of seed as defined in Schedule 3;

b

unpacketed seed; or

c

seed, as grown, for processing, provided the identity of the seed is ensured under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4.