{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereal-seed-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereal-seed-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/328",
  "legislation_title": "The Cereal Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereal-seed-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Pests in the seed",
  "text": "(1) The seed must be practically free from any pests which reduce the usefulness and quality of the seed.\n(2) The seed must also comply with the requirements concerning GB quarantine pests, PFA quarantine pests and RNQPs provided for in implementing acts adopted pursuant to the EU Plant Health Regulation, as well as the measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1) of that Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 17 substituted (1.7.2020) by The Seed and Plant Material (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/165), regs. 1(1), 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in sch. 4 para. 17(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 13(22)(b)(i) (as substituted by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 14(19)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in sch. 4 para. 17(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 13(22)(b)(ii) (as substituted by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 14(19)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/328/schedule/4/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:25:17.713216+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}