OpenLegislation

Article 2 Interpretation

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires:—

  • “the appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, in relation to Wales, the Secretary of State;

  • “approved” means approved by the appropriate Minister in writing, and “approve” and “approval” shall be construed accordingly;

  • “certified” means certified in writing by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as apparently free from virus diseases including sharka disease and apparently true to varietal type;

  • “mother tree” means a tree of a selected scion variety grown and cultivated to provide quantities of scion wood suitable for budding or grafting to rootstocks;

  • “plum material business” means a business which consists in, or such part of a business as consists in, the growing in England or Wales of plum material for sale;

  • “plum material” means stoolbeds, mother trees and rootstock hedges of a type which have a normal productive life of at least five years;

  • “rootstock hedge” means a row of plants cultivated to provide unrooted hard-wood cutting;

  • “rootstock stoolbed” means a row or bed of plants cultivated to provide rooted plants.