Regulation 14 Sealing of packages and containers

England and Wales

(1)

Subject to regulation 18, no person may market, other than in a properly sealed package or container—

(a)

pre-basic seed potatoes;

(b)

basic seed potatoes;

(c)

certified seed potatoes; or

(d)

test and trial seed potatoes.

(2)

For the purposes of this regulation, a properly sealed package or container means—

(a)

for seed potatoes produced in England, a closed package or container that has been sealed with an unbroken sealing device by or under the supervision of an authorised officer;

(b)

for seed potatoes produced outside England, a closed package or container that has been sealed in F1accordance with—

(i)

in the case of seed potatoes produced in the United Kingdom, the relevant seed potatoes regulations;

(ii)

in the case of seed potatoes produced in a Crown Dependency or a country granted equivalence, legislation recognised by the Secretary of State as having equivalent effect to sub-paragraph (a);

(3)

Where a sealing device on a package or container is broken, the package or container must not be re-sealed with a sealing device otherwise than by or under the supervision of an authorised officer.

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation, a “sealing device” means a device applied in such a manner to a package or container that when the package or container is opened the device will be broken.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 14(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/809), regs. 1(b), 7(11) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 21(4)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)