The Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2015

Sealing of packages and containers U.K.

14.—(1) Subject to regulation 18, no person may market, other than in a properly sealed package or container—

(a) pre-basic seed potatoes;

(b) basic seed potatoes;

(c) certified seed potatoes; or

(d) test and trial seed potatoes.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a properly sealed package or container means—

(a) for seed potatoes produced in England, a closed package or container that has been sealed with an unbroken sealing device by or under the supervision of an authorised officer;

(b) for seed potatoes produced outside England, a closed package or container that has been sealed in [F1 accordance with—

(i) in the case of seed potatoes produced in the United Kingdom, the relevant seed potatoes regulations;

(ii) in the case of seed potatoes produced in a Crown Dependency or a country granted equivalence, legislation recognised by the Secretary of State as having equivalent effect to sub-paragraph (a);]

(3) Where a sealing device on a package or container is broken, the package or container must not be re-sealed with a sealing device otherwise than by or under the supervision of an authorised officer.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a “sealing device” means a device applied in such a manner to a package or container that when the package or container is opened the device will be broken.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 14(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/809), regs. 1(b), 7(11) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 21(4)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)