{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1953",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Sealing of packages and containers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 18, no person may market, other than in a properly sealed package or container—\n(a) pre-basic seed potatoes;\n(b) basic seed potatoes;\n(c) certified seed potatoes; or\n(d) test and trial seed potatoes.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a properly sealed package or container means—\n(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;\n(b) for seed potatoes produced outside England, a closed package or container that has been sealed in accordance with—\n(i) in the case of seed potatoes produced in the United Kingdom, the relevant seed potatoes regulations;\n(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);\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1953/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:29:56.988338+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."
}