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.