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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seeds-amendment-regulations-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seeds-amendment-regulations-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1601",
  "legislation_title": "The Fodder Plant Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seeds-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEEDS\nMade 4th July 1991\nLaid before Parliament 25th July 1991\nComing into force 15th August 1991\nThe 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), (5) and (8) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 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:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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) for the definition of “the Ministers”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1601/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:41:26.011053+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."
}