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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-registration-licensing-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3176",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-registration-licensing-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEEDS, ENGLAND\nMade 18th December 2002\nLaid before Parliament 20th December 2002\nComing into force 31st January 2003\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3), (4) and (5A), 24(5), 26(2) and (3) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 and now vested in her, after consultation in accordance with the said section 16(1) with representatives of such interests as appear to her to be concerned and with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 8(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 14; section 16 was amended by section 4(1) of, and paragraph 5(1), (2) and (3) of Schedule 4 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68); see section 38(1) for a definition of “the Secretary of State”. Under the Transfer of Functions (Wales)(No.1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), article 2(1) and Schedule 1, the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 were, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State; and under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2(1) and Schedule 1, the functions of the Secretary of State transferred by the 1978 transfer order were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales. Under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794) the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 were, so far as they are exercisable in relation to England, transferred to the Secretary of State."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3176/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:35:20.550443+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."
}