{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/877",
  "legislation_title": "The Plum Material and Clearance Grants Scheme 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires:—\n“the appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, in relation to Wales, the Secretary of State;\n“approved” means approved by the appropriate Minister in writing, and “approve” and “approval” shall be construed accordingly;\n“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;\n“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;\n“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;\n“plum material” means stoolbeds, mother trees and rootstock hedges of a type which have a normal productive life of at least five years;\n“rootstock hedge” means a row of plants cultivated to provide unrooted hard-wood cutting;\n“rootstock stoolbed” means a row or bed of plants cultivated to provide rooted plants.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/877/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:15:45.599896+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."
}