{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-8.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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "No growing crop certificate may be issued containing a statement that seed potatoes are capable of being marketed as basic seed potatoes of any grade unless the authorised officer is satisfied that the immediately succeeding crop produced from the seed potatoes is not likely to contain—\n(a) more than 0.25% by number of growing plants which do not breed true to variety or are a different variety; and\n(b) in the case of—\n(i) GB grade S, not more than 1%,\n(ii) GB grade SE, not more than 2%, and\n(iii) GB grade E, not more than 4%,\nby number of growing plants which show symptoms of virus diseases ...where those symptoms are attributable to infection in the mother crop.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 8 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)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 21(4)(l)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8 omitted (24.7.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/682), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1953/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}