The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made: 2nd July 1992

Laid before Parliament: 15th July 1992

Coming into force: 5th August 1992

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) and (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[^f00003], after consultation in accordance with the said section 16(1) with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th August 1992.

Amendment

2

In Part I of Schedule 1 to the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982[^f00004] there shall be inserted after the words “Festuca rubra L.” the words

• Festuca pratensis Huds. x
• Lolium multiflorum Lam.

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 29th June 1992.

John Selwyn Gummer — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Hector Monro — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 29th June 1992

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 30th June 1992

Patrick Mayhew — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 2nd July 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations which further amend the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982 implement Council Directive 70/457/EEC (OJ L225, 12.10.70, p.1) as extended by Commission Directive 92/19/EEC (OJ No. L104, 22.4.92, p.61) by adding Festulolium (a cross between Meadow fescue and Italian Ryegrass) to the Regulations.

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); see section 38(1) for the definition of “the Ministers”.

[^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. 1982/844; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/1314.