{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Marketing Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Operations requiring a licence from the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) Any person carrying out any of the following operations must be licensed to do so by the Secretary of State—\n(a) marketing seed;\n(b) packing, sealing or labelling seed;\n(c) re-packing, re-sealing or re-labelling seed;\n(d) preparing mixtures of seed for marketing;\n(e) cleaning, treating or in any other way processing seed intended for marketing.\n(2) But the requirement for a licence does not apply in relation to the marketing of—\n(a) small packages of seed as defined in Schedule 3;\n(b) unpacketed seed; or\n(c) seed, as grown, for processing, provided the identity of the seed is ensured under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/463/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:01.369601+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."
}