{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-5/paragraph-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-5/paragraph-23A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/23A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Increase to maximum weight of a seed lot of grasses",
  "text": "(1) Any person licensed by the Scottish Ministers as a professional seed operator under regulation 4(1)(a) (determination of licences) of the Seed (Licensing and Enforcement etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 or licensed or registered by a GB Authority, other than the Scottish Ministers, or the NI Authority under provisions equivalent to that regulation, may apply to the Scottish Ministers for approval to increase to 25 tonnes the maximum weight of a seed lot of any of the grasses set out in column 1 of the table in paragraph 26.\n(2) An application under sub-paragraph (1) shall contain such information as the Scottish Ministers may require.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers shall not approve an application under sub-paragraph (1) unless they are satisfied that the applicant has complied with the guidance booklet titled “Scottish Government Guide to Large Herbage Seed Lot Approval and Check Sampling Programme 2013” produced by the Scottish Ministers.\n(4) An approval may be made subject to such conditions as the Scottish Ministers think are necessary.\n(5) The Scottish Ministers may revoke an approval under sub-paragraph (4) where they are satisfied that there has been a breach of any condition to which the approval is subject.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 23A inserted (16.12.2013) by The Seed (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/326), regs. 1(1), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 23A(1) substituted (1.7.2016) by The Seed (Licensing and Enforcement etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/68), reg. 1(1), sch. 3 para. 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. 5 para. 23A(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.S.I. 2019/59, reg. 14(25A) (as inserted by The Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(1)(b), 15(23)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/329/schedule/5/paragraph/23A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:25:16.951299+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."
}