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Section 9 Revocation of precision bred confirmationI1I2

England and Wales

(1)

Regulations may make provision conferring power on the Secretary of State to revoke a precision bred confirmation relating to an organism if the Secretary of State is no longer satisfied that the organism is precision bred.

(2)

Regulations made under this section must make provision—

(a)

for the procedure that is to be followed where the Secretary of State proposes to revoke a precision bred confirmation, which must include provision for—

(i)

requiring notice of a proposal to revoke a precision bred confirmation to be published in any way that the Secretary of State considers appropriate to bring it to the attention of those affected by it, and

(ii)

permitting persons affected by the proposal to make representations about it;

(b)

about the consequences of revoking a precision bred confirmation;

(c)

for prescribed information to be included in the register (see section 18).

(3)

Provision made by virtue of subsection (2)(b) must secure that the following are treated as revoked by the revocation of a precision bred confirmation relating to an organism—

(a)

a precision bred animal marketing authorisation relating to the organism;

(b)

any marketing authorisation issued under regulations under Part 3 that was issued in reliance, for the purposes of any requirement imposed by virtue of section 26(3)(a), on the organism being a marketable precision bred organism.

(4)

Regulations under this section may confer a function on the advisory committee.

(5)

Regulations under this section are subject to the negative procedure.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

S. 9 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 48(3)(a)

I2

S. 9 in force at 13.11.2025 for specified purposes by S.I. 2025/575, reg. 2(2)(a)