Welsh Statutory Instruments
SEEDS, WALES
Made
3 June 2009
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
5 June 2009
Coming into force
30 June 2009
The Welsh Ministers, in whom the powers conferred by sections 16(1) to (5A) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(1) are now vested(2), make these Regulations in exercise of those powers.
The Welsh Ministers have carried out a consultation in accordance with section 16(1) of that Act.
1964 c. 14. Section 16 has been amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4 and Schedule 4, paragraph 5; S.I. 1977/1112, and the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49), section 2.
See section 38(1) for the definition of “the Minister”.
Under the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No.1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272) the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1967 were, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State; and under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) the functions transferred to the Secretary of State by the 1978 Order were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales. These functions were transferred from the National Assembly for Wales to the Welsh Ministers under the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).