{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-3.json",
  "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",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Clones",
  "text": "(a) Clones shall be identifiable by distinctive characters which must be notified to the Department in the application referred to in regulation 7(7) and must be approved by the Department if the basic material is itself to be approved.\n(b) The superiority of individual clones shall be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Department by the established use in forestry practice of the clones, or from the results of experimentation which is in the Department’s view of sufficient duration to be a reliable indication of the individual clone’s characters.\n(c) The Department shall be satisfied that ortets used for the production of clones shall be selected for their outstanding characters as judged by the Department in accordance with such of the requirements of paragraphs 1 to 10 of Schedule 3 as apply to ortets, with particular weight being given to the requirements of paragraphs 4 and 6 to 10 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3 in operation at 1.1.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/404/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:30.513505+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."
}