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

Made: 2nd March 1992

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1992

Coming into force: 1st April 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 on them by section 16(1), (1A)(e) and (8) and 36 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 that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

Amendment of the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990

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For the Schedule to the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990[^f00003] there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE SCHEDULE TO THE SEEDS (NATIONAL LISTS OF VARIETIES) (FEES) REGULATIONS 1990

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 18th February 1992.

John Selwyn Gummer — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Strathclyde — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 2nd March 1992

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 27th February 1992

Peter Brooke — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 28th February 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990 by prescribing revised fees in respect of matters arising under the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982 (as amended) (regulation 2).

The matters in respect of which the revised fees are prescribed are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations, and the fees which were chargeable before these Regulations came into force are printed in italics beside the revised fees.

The Regulations also prescribe a fee with regard to distinctness, uniformity and stability tests for sugar beet and fodder beet.

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) (as amended by S.I. 1978/272) for the definition of “the Ministers” and section 39(3)(a)(ii) for an extension to include the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Northern Ireland.

[^f00002]: By the Plant Varieties and Seeds (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/609).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1990/617 amended by S.I. 1991/657.