{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1759",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEEDS\nMade 10th October 1988\nLaid before Parliament 25th October 1988\nComing into force 15th November 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), (3) and (8) and 36 as read with section 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964, 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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1759/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:56:47.528718+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."
}