The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made: 8th April 1999

Laid before Parliament: 8th April 1999

Coming into force: 30th April 1999

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 sections 16(1), (1A)(e) and (8) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964¹, as extended to Northern Ireland², 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 1999 and shall come into force on 30th April 1999.

Amendment of the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1994

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For the Schedules to the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1994³ there shall be substituted the Schedules set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — SCHEDULES TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE SCHEDULES TO THE SEEDS (NATIONAL LISTS OF VARIETIES) (FEES) REGULATIONS 1994

Signed

Jeff Rooker — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 1st April 1999

Sewel — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 1st April 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 7th April 1999

Paul Murphy — Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office — 8th April 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1994 (as amended) so as to prescribe revised fees in respect of matters arising under the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982 (as amended) (regulation 2 and the Schedule).

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.

Application, test, trial and renewal fees have been increased by 5 per cent., rounded to the nearest £5. The fees in Schedule 5 have been similarly increased apart from the fees for an application for the substitution of a name in a National List and for making written representations to the Ministers which remain unchanged.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the library 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.

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