# The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Paragraph 3

Extent: N.I.

No authorisation shall be issued unless the Department is satisfied that—
(a) the seed potatoes are of a variety for which an application has been made under regulation 4(1)(a) of the NI Variety Lists Regulations for acceptance of the variety concerned on to a NI Variety List and that application has not been withdrawn or finally determined;
(b) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown—
(i) is not land in respect of which a notice has been served under regulation 15(2) to the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations with regard to Wart Disease, Ring Rot or Potato Cyst Nematode and not withdrawn; and
(ii) is not land within a zone demarcated under regulation 17(2) to the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations to prevent the spread of Brown Rot;
(c) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing—
(i) is land which as a result of a soil test carried out by the Department prior to the planting of the crop has been found not to be contaminated by Potato Cyst Nematode; and
(ii) is not demarcated under Part 4 to Schedule 2 to the Plant Health Official Controls Regulations .
(d) the seed potatoes are taken from a crop of seed potatoes free from Potato Cyst Nematode, Wart Disease, Ring Rot and Brown Rot; and
(e) the seed potatoes fulfil the conditions for UK grade E specified in column 3 of Table 2 in Schedule 4.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/190/schedule/5/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-3
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