{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-1991/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-1991/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2206",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Withholding or withdrawal of official label or official document",
  "text": "The Minister may withhold an official label or official document or may withdraw any official label or official document in respect of any lot or any part thereof where he is reasonably satisfied that–\n(a) the seed potatoes comprised in the lot or any part thereof have not been so harvested, stored or prepared for marketing as to ensure that seed potatoes of one class or variety are kept separate from seed potatoes of any other class or variety or from other potatoes;\n(b) the lot contains seed potatoes which are of a size less than 25 millimetres which expressed as a percentage of the total weight varies by more than 1.5% from the stated minimum size;\n(c) the seed potatoes are not contained in or intended for delivery in a package or container within the meaning assigned to that expression in regulation 2(1);\n(d) any of the seed potatoes in the lot have been treated with a product which is produced primarily as an application for inhibiting germination;\n(e) the seed potatoes comprised in the lot on a sample taken exceeded any of the tolerances for diseases or pests, damage and defects specified in the appropriate part of Schedule 5;\n(f) any official label or official document already issued in respect of the seed potatoes contains any particular which is false in a material respect; or\n(g) there has been any other failure to comply with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1031",
      "affecting_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2206/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:37:17.856849+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."
}