{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/395",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General provisions on the marketing of seed potatoes",
  "text": "(1) No person may market seed potatoes—\n(a) as being of a higher grade;\n(b) which have been treated with a product which is produced primarily as an application for inhibiting germination; or\n(c) otherwise than in a closed—\n(i) package or container which has not previously been used for any purpose; or\n(ii) container which, having been previously used for any purpose, has been cleaned and disinfected since that previous use in accordance with the requirements of an authorised officer.\n(2) No person may market seed potatoes otherwise than in a lot which—\n(a) consists wholly of seed potatoes of the same grade; and\n(b) meets the applicable requirements as to varietal purity and size specified in Schedule 3.\n(3) No person may market seed potatoes of a conservation variety unless—\n(a) the seed potatoes were produced in the Great Britain;\n(b) the variety is listed in the GB Variety List or NI Variety List; and\n(c) the person complies with the requirements of regulation 7.\n(4) No person may market any genetically modified seed potatoes unless it is clearly indicated in the sales catalogue of the person marketing those seed potatoes, and in any other marketing information or marketing representations provided by that person, that the seed potatoes have been genetically modified.\n(5) A person may market seed potatoes at the applicable GB grade or, as the case may be, at a lower grade.\n(6) Where a person markets seed potatoes and no field generation is indicated on the official label or on an official document, the field generation is deemed to be—\n(a) in the case of pre-basic seed potatoes, the fourth field generation; and\n(b) in the case of basic seed potatoes in respect of which the applicable GB grade or, as the case may be, the applicable Union grade is—\n(i) GB grade S or Union grade S, the fifth field generation,\n(ii) GB grade SE or Union grade SE, the sixth field generation,\n(iii) GB grade E or Union grade E, the seventh field generation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(4)(za)(i) (as inserted by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 17(4)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(4)(za)(ii) (as inserted by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 17(4)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(4)(a) (as substituted by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 17(4)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(6)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(4)(b) (as amended by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 17(4)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/395/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:52.276655+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."
}