The Seed Potatoes (Wales) Regulations 2016

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 106 (W. 52)

Seeds, Wales

The Seed Potatoes (Wales) Regulations 2016

Made

2 February 2016

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

4 February 2016

Coming into force

29 February 2016

The Welsh Ministers, in whom the powers conferred by sections 16(1) to (5) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(1) are now vested(2), make the following Regulations in exercise of those powers.

The Welsh Ministers have carried out a consultation in accordance with section 16(1) of that Act.

(1)

1964 c. 14; section 16(1) was amended, and section 16(1A) was inserted, by section 4 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68); and section 16(3) was amended by S.I. 1977/1112. See section 38(1) for the definition of “the Minister”.

(2)

The functions of the Minister, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272). Those functions were then transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).