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Article 41 Restriction on the planting or sale for planting of certain hop plants

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(1)

For the purposes of this article “the specified area” means the area comprising the counties of—

(a)

East Sussex,

(b)

West Sussex except that part which lies west of the A24 road, and

(c)

Kent except that part which lies east of a line following the A20 road from Folkestone to Maidstone, the A229 road from Maidstone to Rochester, the A2 road from Rochester to Strood, the A228 road from Strood and the B2001 road to Grain.

(2)

No person shall—

(a)

plant or knowingly cause or permit to be planted outside the specified area; or

(b)

sell, in the knowledge that such plant is intended for planting outside the specified area,

any hop plant other than a hop plant of one of the following varieties, namely

  • Brewers Gold

  • Bullion

  • Fuggle

  • Male 1/63/45

  • Male 12/97/91

  • Male 24/68/8

  • Male 24/68/103

  • Northern Brewer

  • Omega

  • Silks B

  • Silks C

  • True Golding varieties

  • Wye Challenger

  • Wye Northdown

  • Wye Target

  • Wye Viking

  • Wye Yeoman

  • Zenith