{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An official label affixed to a package or container of seed potatoes—\n(a) in the case of basic seed potatoes, shall be white;\n(b) in the case of pre-basic seed potatoes, shall be white with a diagonal violet line;\n(c) in the case of test and trial seed potatoes, shall be orange.\n(2) An official label shall not measure less than 110 millimetres by 67 millimetres in size.\n(3) An official label affixed to a package or container of basic seed potatoes shall—\n(a) state the words “ UK Rules and Standards”; and\n(b) state the following particulars—\nCertification authority and country or their initials;\nOfficially assigned serial number;\nCountry of production;\nProducer's identification number or reference number of the lot;\nVariety, indicated at least in Roman characters;\nGenetically modified (if appropriate);\nBasic seed potatoes;\nGrade;\nSize;\nDeclared net weight;\nMonth and year of sealing.\n(4) An official label affixed to a package or container of pre-basic seed potatoes shall state the following particulars—\nCertification authority and country or their initials;\nProducer's identification number or reference number of the lot;\nSpecies, indicated at least in Roman characters, under its botanical name, which may be given in abridged form and without the authors' names, or under its common name, or both;\nVariety, indicated at least in Roman characters;\nGenetically modified (if appropriate);\nPre-basic seed potatoes;\nGrade;\nMonth and year of sealing.\n(5) An official label affixed to a package or container of test and trial seed potatoes shall—\n(a) state the words “variety not yet officially listed” and “for test and trials only”; and\n(b) state the following particulars—\nCertification authority and country or their distinguishing abbreviation;\nProducer's identification number or reference number of the lot;\nMonth and year of sealing;\nSpecies;\nDenomination of the variety under which the seed potatoes are to be marketed (which may be the breeder's reference, the proposed denomination or the approved denomination);\nReference number in respect of any application submitted in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of the NI Variety Lists Regulations;\nGenetically modified (if appropriate);\nSize;\nDeclared net weight.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 1(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Seed Potatoes and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/962), regs. 1(2), 22(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Seed Potatoes and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/962), regs. 1(2), 22(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(3)(b) inserted (1.8.2017) by The Seed Potatoes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/155), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/302), regs. 1, 26(2)(g)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/190/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}