{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-licensing-and-enforcement-etc-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-licensing-and-enforcement-etc-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/68",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed (Licensing and Enforcement etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-licensing-and-enforcement-etc-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Training and examinations",
  "text": "The Scottish Ministers may require—\n(a) a licensed crop inspector or a licensed seed sampler to attend such training courses and undergo such examinations as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary to maintain the knowledge and qualifications required in respect of any functions specified in a licence granted under regulation 4(1)(a);\n(b) a seed analyst carrying out statutory seed testing at a licensed seed testing station, or the Analyst in Charge of such a station, to attend such training courses and undergo such examinations as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary to maintain the knowledge and qualifications required in respect of the functions of the seed analyst or, as the case may be Analyst in Charge, carried out at that station.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.7.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/68/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:15.420016+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."
}