{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/190",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation: diseases and pests",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Blackleg” means Pectobacterium spp;\n“Black Scurf” means Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn;\n“Blight” means Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary;\n“Brown Rot” means Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.;\n“Colorado Beetle” means Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say);\n“Common Scab” means Streptomyces species;\n“Dickeya” means Dickeya spp.;\n“Dry Rot” means Fusarium species;\n“Gangrene” means Phoma species;\n“Leafroll” means Potato Leafroll Virus;\n“Potato Cyst Nematode” means Globodera (Heterodera) species infesting potatoes;\n“Potato Tuber Eelworm” means Ditylenchus destructor (Thorne);\n“Powdery Scab” means Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Lagerh;\n“PSTVd” means Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid;\n“PVA” means Potato Virus A;\n“PVY” means Potato Virus Y;\n“Ring Rot” means Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. ssp. sepedonicus (Spiek & Kotth) Davies et al.;\n“Silver Scurf” means Helminthosporium solani;\n“Skin Spot” means Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M.B. Ellis;\n“Wart Disease” means Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Perc..",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/190/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:47.729828+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."
}