{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/395",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Test and trial seed potatoes",
  "text": "(1) The requirements set out in this paragraph apply to an official label attached to a package or container of test and trial seed potatoes.\n(2) An official label to which this paragraph applies must—\n(a) be orange;\n(b) measure not less than 110 millimetres by 67 millimetres and, unless the package or container is intended for export to countries outside the British Islands, have printed on it the words “ GB Rules and Standards”;\n(c) contain the words “variety not yet officially listed” and “for tests and trials only”; and\n(d) state the following particulars—\nCertification authority and country or their initials;\nOfficially assigned serial number;\nCountry of production;\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;\nCrop identification number including producer's identification number (or equivalent);\nVariety and official application number, indicated at least in Roman characters;\nGenetically modified (if appropriate);\nSize;\nMonth and year when officially sealed; and\nDeclared net weight.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 5 para. 3(2)(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(18)(c)(i)(aa); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in sch. 5 para. 3(2)(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(18)(c)(i)(bb) (as amended by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 17(16)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in sch. 5 para. 3(2)(d) 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(18)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in sch. 5 para. 3(2)(d) inserted (31.3.2017) by The Seed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/434), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "These terms are referred to in Schedule 1, Part I, paragraphs 1(a) and (b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/395/schedule/5/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}