{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1759",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 18",
  "text": "For regulation 18(6)(a) (Prevention of marketing of sub-standard potatoes and the prevention of spread of disease by marketing of potatoes) there shall be substituted the following:—\n“(a) in relation to the pests and diseases specified in Group III of Part I and Group V of Part II of Schedule 5 deem a potato in any such sample not to be affected by disease when in his opinion—\n(i) less than one-eighth of its surface area has been affected, and\n(ii) it has at least 2 eyes at the rose end wholly unaffected by the disease;\n(aa) in relation to the pests and diseases specified in Group IV of Parts I and II of Schedule 5 deem a potato in any such sample not to be affected by disease when in his opinion—\n(i) less than one-quarter of its surface area has been affected, and\n(ii) it has at least 2 eyes at the rose end wholly unaffected by the disease;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1759/regulation/4",
    "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."
}