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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/404",
  "legislation_title": "The Forest Reproductive Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations shall be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“approved basic material” in relation to basic material approved by an appropriate authority means basic material which is approved in accordance with regulation 7;\n“autochthonous” means, in relation to a stand or seed source, either–\n(a)that it has been continuously regenerated by natural regeneration, or\n(b)that it has been regenerated artificially from–\n(i)reproductive material collected in the same stand or seed source, or\n(ii)from other stands or seed sources within close proximity meeting the descriptions in (a) or (b)(i);\n“approved non-EU third countries” means the countries and territories listed in Part 1A of Schedule 13;\n“authorised officer” means a person authorised by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to exercise its powers and execute its functions under these Regulations;\n“basic material” means material from which reproductive material may be collected or produced and which is in the form of one of the types defined in paragraph (3);\n“category” in respect of forest reproductive material means one of the categories listed in regulation 4(1);\n“clonal mixture” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3);\n“clone” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3);\n“collecting” includes the taking of parts of plants, extraction of seed, and harvesting;\n“the Commissioners” has the same meaning given in the GB Regulations;\n“contact details” means a person’s telephone number, if he has one, and, where he may be contacted by other telephonic or electronic communication, his fax number or e-mail address;\n...\n“crossing design” means the method by which individual trees used as female parents are pollinated, whether naturally or artificially, by one or more trees used as male parents;\n“Department” refers to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development;\n“the Directive” means Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22nd December 1999 on the marketing of forest reproductive material;\n...\n...\n“the EU Plant Health Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC;\n“Forest reproductive material” means reproductive material of the tree species and artificial hybrids listed in Schedule 1;\n“full-sibling” means progeny obtained from parents of family where the identified parent used as female is pollinated with the pollen of one other parent tree;\n“genetically modified organism” has the meaning given to it in Article 3 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991\n“the GB Regulations” means the Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002 ;\n“half-sibling” means progeny obtained from parents of family where the identified parent used as female is pollinated with a number of identified or unidentified parent trees;\n“indigenous” in respect of a stand or seed source means that it is an autochthonous stand or seed source, or has been raised artificially from seed, the origin of which is situated in the same region of provenance;\n“infructescense” is a type of seed unit and means a group of fruits formed on a single inflorescence;\n“marketing” means–\n(a)displaying with a view to sale,\n(b)offering for sale,\n(c)selling, or\n(d)delivering under a contract (other than where an agent delivers to his principal items procured on the principal’s behalf), including a contract for the supply of services;\n“owner” in respect of basic material has the meaning given it in regulation 7(6), subject to regulation 7(9);\n“Master Certificate” means—\n(a)in the case of forest reproductive material collected or otherwise derived from basic material which is located in a relevant territory, a Master Certificate issued in accordance with regulation 13;\n(b)in the case of forest reproductive material collected or otherwise derived from basic material which is located in Great Britain a Master Certificate issued by the the Commissioners in accordance with regulation 13 of the GB Regulations ;\n(c)in the case of forest reproductive material collected or otherwise derived from basic material which is located in another member State, a Master Certificate issued by an official body of that member State in accordance with Article 12 of the Directive;\n(d)in the case of forest reproductive material produced in an approved non-EU third country, a Master Certificate issued by the Department in accordance with regulation 25(5) and (6) or a Master Certificate issued by the Commissioners in accordance with the GB Regulations ;\n(e)in the case of forest reproductive material produced in a permitted third country, a Master Certificate issued by the Department in accordance with regulation 25(5), a Master Certificate issued in relation to the material by by a permitted third country authority or an official certificate within the meaning of paragraph 8 of Schedule13;\n...\n“Northern Ireland Register” has the meaning given to it in regulation 6;\n“the 1977 Regulations” means the Forest Reproductive Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977;\n“the 1973 Regulations” means the Forest Reproductive Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973;\n“official body”—\n(a)in relation to a member State has the meaning given in Article 2(k) of the Directive;\n(b)...\n(c)in relation to an approved non-EU third country or a permitted third country means the authority or body which is officially responsible in that country for the approval and control of forest reproductive material produced in the country;\n“origin” means–\n(a)in respect of an autochthonous stand or seed source, the place in which the trees are growing, and\n(b)in respect of any other stand or seed source, the place from which the seed or plants in the stand or seed source were originally introduced;\n“ortet” has the meaning given it under “clones” in paragraph (3) of this regulation;\n“parents of family” are a type of basic material, and the phrase has the meaning given to it in paragraph (3);\n“parts of plants” refers to a type of reproductive material, and the phrase has the meaning given it in paragraph (4);\n...\n“planting stock” refers to a type of reproductive material, and has the meaning given it in paragraph (4);\n“Populus spp.” includes all species of the genus, including artificial hybrids;\n“production” includes all stages in–\nthe generation of a seed unit and, where the seed unit is not already a seed, the conversion from seed unit to seed, and\nthe raising of planting stock from seed units and parts of plants;\n“provenance” means the place in which any stand of trees is growing or where a seed source is located;\n“ramet” has the meaning given it under “clones” in paragraph (3) of this regulation;\n“region of provenance” means, in respect of a species or sub-species, an area demarcated pursuant to regulation 5 by the Department or pursuant to regulation 5 of the GB Regulations by the Commissioners , in which stands or seed sources showing similar phenotypic or genetic character are found, or a group of such areas subject to uniform or similar ecological conditions;\n“registered supplier” means a supplier of forest reproductive material registered in accordance with regulation 16;\n“reproductive material” means material which is derived from basic material and is in one of the forms defined in paragraph (4);\n“seed orchard” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3);\n“seed source” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3);\n“seed unit” is a type of reproductive material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (4);\n“specified purpose” in Schedules 3 and 5 has the meaning given it in Schedule 3, in the paragraph headed “General”;\n“stand” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3);\n“standard” means basic material or reproductive material which serves as a comparator in comparative tests and is defined more specifically in Schedule 5, paragraph 3(b);\n“subsequent multiplication by vegetative propagation” means propagation by vegetative methods from forest reproductive material in respect of which a Master Certificate has been issued or sought\n“supplier” means any person who, acting in the course of a business or trade (whether or not for profit), markets or imports forest reproductive material;\n“supplier’s label or document” means, except in regulations 23 and 24, the label or document setting out the particulars required under regulation 19(1);\n“third country” means a country or territory outside the United Kingdom;\n“the Tribunal” means the Tribunal continued under section 42 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Plant Varieties Act 1997;\n“unit of approval” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 7(5); and\n“verification test” means an assessment, whether by observation or measurement of characteristics, including molecular methods of measurement, or by other means, of the proportion of hybrid material in reproductive material, where that reproductive material is produced as an artificial hybrid.\n(3) In respect of basic material–\n“clonal mixture” means a mixture of identified clones in known proportions;\n“clone” means a group of individuals (referred to as “ramets”) derived originally from a single individual (referred to as an “ortet”) by means of vegetative propagation, such as cuttings, micropropagation, grafts, layers or divisions;\n“parents of family” means trees used to obtain progeny by controlled or open pollination of one identified parent used as a female;\n“seed orchard” means a plantation of selected clones or families which is isolated or managed so as to avoid or reduce pollination from outside sources, and managed so as to produce frequent, abundant and easily collected crops of seed;\n“seed source” means trees within an area from which seed is collected; and\n“stand” means a delineated population of trees possessing at least a moderate degree of uniformity in composition.\n(4) In respect of reproductive material,\n“parts of plants” means–\n(a)buds,\n(b)cuttings of stem, leaf or root,\n(c)explants or embryos for micropropagation,\n(d)layers,\n(e)roots,\n(f)scions,\n(g)sets, and\n(h)any other part of a plant intended for the production of planting stock;\n“planting stock” means plants which are produced from seed units or from parts of plants, or which originated by natural regeneration; and\n“seed unit” means cones, infructescenses, fruits and seeds intended for the production of planting stock.\n(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (22.3.2019) by The Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/50), regs. 1, 3(1)(a)"
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      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(iv); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(v); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (14.12.2019) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/230), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 3(2)(a)"
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      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(vi); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(vii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (22.3.2019) by The Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/50), regs. 1, 3(1)(d)"
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      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(aa)(viii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(bb)(viii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(ix); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(x); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (22.3.2019) by The Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/50), regs. 1, 3(1)(e)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(aa)(xi); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(bb)(xi); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(xii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(xiii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 17(a)(xiv); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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