Section 16 | Seeds Regulations | Plant Varieties And Seeds Act 1964 C14

16 Seeds regulations

Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 (1964 c 14) | Legislation

Part II Seeds and Seed Potatoes

Regulation of sales

16 Seeds regulations

(1) The Minister, after consultation with representatives of such interests as appear to him to be concerned, may by statutory instrument make such regulations as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for the purpose—

(a) of ensuring that reliable and adequate information is afforded as to the nature, condition and quality of seeds which are sold or are for sale,

(b) of preventing the sale of seeds which are deleterious, and of preventing the sale of seeds which have not been tested for purity and germination, or which are of a variety the performance of which has not been subjected to trials,

(d) of regulating the descriptions under which seeds are sold, and

(e) of prescribing anything which, under this Part of this Act, is authorised or required to be prescribed,

and regulations under this section shall be known as seeds regulations.

[(1A) Seeds regulations may further make provision for regulating the marketing, or the importation or exportation, of seeds or any related activities (whether by reference to officially published lists of permitted