The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made: 1st March 1988

Laid before Parliament: 9th March 1988

Coming into force: 1st April 1988

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1), (1A)(e), (8), and 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964[^f00001] as extended to Northern Ireland[^f00002] and now vested in them[^f00003], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned in accordance with section 16(1) of the said Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

Amendment of principal regulations

2

For Schedule 1 to the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1987[^f00004] there shall be substituted the provisions set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE SEEDS (NATIONAL LISTS OF VARIETIES) (FEES) REGULATIONS 1987

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 25th February 1988.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 25th February 1988

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 25th February 1988

Tom King — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 1st March 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1987 by substituting a new Schedule for Schedule 1 to those Regulations. The new Schedule prescribes an overall increase of fees for the matters for which fees were previously charged with the exception of certain fees payable in respect of other matters (Part V of the Schedule) which remain at their former levels.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1964 c. 14; section 16 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 5(1), (2) and (3); section 38(1) contains a definition of “the Ministers” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

[^f00002]: By section 39(3) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 and by the Plant Varieties and Seeds (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/609).

[^f00003]: In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/188.