The Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made: 4th June 1997

Laid before Parliament: 6th June 1997

Coming into force: 1st July 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1), (1A)(e) and (8) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, 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 (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.

Amendment

2

For Schedules 1 to 6 to the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985[^f00002] there shall be substituted the Schedules set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE SCHEDULES TO THE SEEDS (FEES) REGULATIONS 1985

Signed

Lord Donoughue — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 2nd June 1997

Sewel — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 3rd June 1997

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 4th June 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st July 1997, amend the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 (as amended). They prescribe revised fees in respect of matters arising under the Cereal Seeds Regulations 1993 (as amended), the Fodder Plant Seeds Regulations 1993 (as amended), the Oil and Fibre Plant Seeds Regulations 1993 (as amended), the Beet Seeds Regulations 1993 (as amended), the Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993 (as amended) and the Seeds (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) Regulations 1985 (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.

A uniform increase of 2.5% has been applied to all fees and has been rounded to the nearest five pence except in the case of the annual fee for Licensed Seed Testing Stations, which has been rounded to the nearest £1.

A Compliance Cost Assessment has been prepared and placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, White House Lane, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LF.

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 a definition of “the Ministers”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/981; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/610 and 1996/1486.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1993/2005, amended by S.I. 1995/1482 and 1997/616.

[^f00004]: The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 before the coming into force of the Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1415) on 1st July 1997.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1993/2009, amended by S.I. 1993/2529, 1996/1453 and 1997/616.

[^f00006]: The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 before the coming into force of the Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1415) on 1st July 1997.

[^f00007]: S.I. 1993/2007, amended by S.I. 1994/1423, 1996/1451 and 1997/616.

[^f00008]: The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 before the coming into force of the Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1415) on 1st July 1997.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1993/2006, amended by S.I. 1997/616.

[^f00010]: The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 before the coming into force of the Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1415) on 1st July 1997.

[^f00011]: S.I. 1993/2008, amended by S.I. 1996/1452 and 1997/616.

[^f00012]: The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 before the coming into force of the Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1415) on 1st July 1997.

[^f00013]: S.I. 1985/980, amended by S.I. 1987/1098, 1990/611 and 1993/2530.

[^f00014]: The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under the Seeds (Fees) Regulations 1985 before the coming into force of the Seeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1415) on 1st July 1997.