{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-fees-england-regulations-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-fees-england-regulations-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1316",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Fees) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-fees-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEEDS\nMade 11th May 2004\nLaid before Parliament 13th May 2004\nComing into force 22nd June 2004\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16(1) and (1A)(e) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 and now vested in her, after consultation with representatives of such interests as appear to her to be concerned, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 14; section 16(1) was amended and section 16(1A) inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 5(1) and (2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Under the Transfer of Functions (Wales)(No.1) Order 1978 (SI 1978/272), article 2(1) and Schedule 2, the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 were, so far as they were exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State and under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (SI 1999/672), article 2(1) and Schedule 1, the functions transferred to the Secretary of State by the 1978 Order were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales. The remaining functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (SI 2002/794)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1316/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:25:00.671154+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."
}