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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-registration-licensing-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2002/regulation-5",
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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": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Registrations",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made under regulation 4 the Secretary of State shall, after carrying out such investigations and inspections as she may think fit, register the applicant as a person who may engage in the seed industry activity to which his application relates if she is satisfied that the applicant is a suitable person to engage in such activity.\n(2) In deciding whether an applicant is a suitable person to engage in the seed industry activity to which his application relates the Secretary of State may take into account the matters specified in Part I of Schedule 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3176/regulation/5",
    "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."
}