The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made: 26th July 1989

Laid before Parliament: 11th August 1989

Coming into force: 1st September 1989

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), (8) and 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964[^f00001], as extended to Northern Ireland[^f00002], 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) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st September 1989.

Amendment

2

For Schedule 1 to the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982[^f00003] (kinds of plant varieties in National Lists) there shall be substituted the provisions of the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE SEEDS (NATIONAL LISTS OF VARIETIES) REGULATIONS 1982

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 24th July 1989.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 25th July 1989

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 26th July 1989

Tom King — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 25th July 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982 by substituting a new Schedule for Schedule 1 to those Regulations. Apart from a number of amendments to the botanical names of the plant varieties so as to bring them into line with those recognised internationally, the new Schedule 1 introduces new agricultural crop kinds triticale, rescue grass and Alaska brome-grass and new vegetable kinds Chinese cabbage and gourd.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1964 c. 14; section 16 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and paragraph 5(1), (2) and (3) of Schedule 4; section 38(1) (as amended by S.I. 1978/272) 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]: S.I. 1982/844, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations.