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Regulation 24 Applications for licences

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(1)

A person may apply to the Secretary of State for an establishment to be licensed as a laboratory that may be used for carrying out statutory seed testing.

(2)

An application made under paragraph (1) may relate to any species of seed to which the Seed Marketing Regulations apply, except seed of a species to which the Vegetable Seed (England) Regulations 2002 apply.

(3)

An application made under paragraph (1) shall—

(a)

contain the name and address of the applicant and, where different, the person who shall be in charge of the laboratory (the “person in charge”);

(b)

be accompanied by details of the laboratory and species of seed in respect of which a licence is sought; and

(c)

contain such other information as the Secretary of State may reasonably require for the purpose of considering the matters to be taken into account in Part I of Schedule 4.