{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/schedule-9/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-reproductive-material-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/schedule-9/paragraph-2.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/9/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Sets",
  "text": "(a) Sets shall not be considered to be of fair marketable quality if any of the following defects exist:\n(i) their wood is more than three years old;\n(ii) they have less than five well formed buds;\n(iii) they are affected by necroses or show damage by harmful organisms;\n(iv) they show signs of desiccation, overheating, mould or decay;\n(v) they have injuries other than pruning cuts;\n(vi) they have multiple stems;\n(vii) they have excessive stem curvature.\n(b) Size classes for sets\nClass\nMinimum diameter (mm) at mid-length\nMinimum height (m)\n. . .\nN1\n6\n1.5\nN2\n15\n3.00\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 2(b) 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), 36(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 2 in operation at 1.1.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1030",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1030",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/404/schedule/9/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}