{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/106",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "No authorisation is to be issued by an authorised officer unless that officer is satisfied that—\n(a) the seed potatoes are of a variety for which an application has been made under regulation 4(1)(a) of the National Lists Regulations for acceptance of the variety concerned on to a National List and that application has not been withdrawn or finally determined;\n(b) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown is not land which is demarcated under Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Official Controls (Plant Health) Regulations as contaminated with Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb) Perc) or is within a safety zone demarcated under those Regulations;\n(c) the land on which the seed potatoes are growing or were grown is land which is not contaminated by Globodera species infesting potatoes;\n(d) the seed potatoes are taken from a crop of seed potatoes free from Globodera species infesting potatoes, Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb) Perc, Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al ssp Sepedonicus (Spieck & Kotth) Davis et al) and Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al);\n(e) the number of growing plants affected by blackleg does not exceed 4%;\n(f) the immediately succeeding crop produced from the seed potatoes is, in the opinion of the authorised officer, likely to contain—\n(i) not more than 0.5% by number of growing plants which do not breed true to variety and not more than 0.2% by number of growing plants which are of a different variety; and\n(ii) not more than 10% by number of growing plants which show symptoms, other than slight symptoms, of severe virus diseases ... (light mosaics causing discoloration and not leaf deformation are to be ignored); and\n(g) the seed potatoes are ascertained not to be affected by any of the tolerances for diseases or pests, damage or defects specified in Part 4 of Schedule 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 3(b) substituted (27.3.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/206), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 3(b) substituted (27.3.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/206), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 4(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 3(f)(ii) omitted (29.8.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/833), regs. 1, 5(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/106/schedule/5/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:17.660399+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."
}