{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Marketing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Marketing seed",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), seed to which these Regulations apply may only be marketed as seed if it is—\n(a) certified under regulation 10 and 11 as being one of the categories in regulation 5;\n(b) packaged and sealed in accordance with regulation 16; and\n(c) labelled in accordance with regulation 17;\n(2) Subject to regulation 27, seed to which this paragraph applies may only be marketed as seed if it is—\n(a) fodder seed which has been certified in another part of the United Kingdom;\n(b) seed which has been imported from a European Single Market State and—\n(i) is of a variety listed in the National List or the Common Catalogue except the vegetable seed of the species listed in Council Directive 2002/55/EC produced in Switzerland;\n(ii) is officially certified, in compliance with the requirements set out in EU law, including those measures referred to in regulation 3(2)(a) to (e) and (i); and\n(iii) has been imported into Northern Ireland before the end of the period of two years beginning with the day after the day on which exit day falls.\n(c) cereal seed, vegetable seed, beet seed and oil and fibre plant seed which has been imported from a country with equivalence, and is—\n(i) seed of the species specified in Annex I to the decision and has been produced in the third countries listed in that Annex and officially certified by the authorities listed in that Annex; and\n(ii) satisfies the conditions laid down in point B of Annex II to that Decision.\n(3) No person shall market any seed to which these Regulations apply unless they are licensed to do so in accordance with regulation 20.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2)(a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Seed Marketing and Fertilisers (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/319), regs. 1, 3(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 43(a) (as amended by S.I. 2019/820, regs. 1(1), 5(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed Marketing and Fertilisers (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/319), regs. 1, 3(c)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 43(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/244/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:05.592071+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."
}