{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/547",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEEDS\nMade 20th March 1987\nLaid before Parliament 2nd April 1987\nComing into force\nfor the purposes of regulations 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 23rd April 1987\nfor all other purposes 1st March 1988\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3) and (8) and 36 as read with section 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964(), and now vested in them() and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 16(1) of that Act with representatives of such interests as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 14; section 16 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 5(1)(2) and (3); section 16 is applied to seed potatoes by section 29(1); section 29 was amended by the European Communities Act 1972, Schedule 4, paragraph 5(4); section 38(1) was amended by S.I. 1978/272."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/547/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:28:59.099889+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."
}