{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1953",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A growing crop certificate may only be issued where an authorised officer is satisfied, in relation to the seed potatoes examined by that officer, that—\n(a) the seed potatoes are of a variety of potato species entered in a GB Variety List;\n(b) the seed potatoes in any one crop are of a single variety;\n(c) the seed potatoes are taken from a crop which is free from the following diseases or pests—\n(i) Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb) Perc);\n(ii) Potato Cyst Nematode (Globodera species infesting potatoes);\n(iii) Ring Rot (Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al ssp Sepedonicus (Spieck & Kotth) Davis et al);\n(iv) Brown Rot (Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al);\n(v) Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid;\n(vi) Colorado Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say));\n(vii) Potato Tuber Eelworm (Ditylenchus destructor (Thorne));\n(viii) Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum Liefting et al.; and\n(ix) Candidatus Phytoplasma solani Quaglino et al;\n(d) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown is not land which is demarcated under Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Official Controls (Plant Health) Regulations as contaminated with Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb) Perc) or is within a safety zone demarcated under those Regulations;\n(e) blanking in any of the growing crop of the seed potatoes is not or was not excessive;\n(f) the growing crop has not been over-rogued; and\n(g) all reasonable husbandry practices for the prevention of the occurrence, development or spread of diseases and pests have been effectively carried out.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(a) 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(15)(a) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 21(4)(l)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3(c)(vi)-(ix) substituted for Sch. 1 para. 3(c)(vi)(vii) (24.7.2020) by The Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/682), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(d) substituted (14.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1517), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(d) substituted (14.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1517), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(4)(a)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1953/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}