# The Plum Material and Clearance Grants Scheme 1979, Article 2: Interpretation


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/877/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/plum-material-and-clearance-grants-scheme-1979/article-2
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