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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-registration-licensing-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3176",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2002",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Dynamic spear sampler",
  "text": "A dynamic spear sampler may be used, in accordance with the method described in paragraph 21, for sampling seed in sacks or small containers. It shall be a hollow, cylindrical, solid-pointed metal spear or trier which shall be long enough to reach beyond the middle of the sack from the side and shall have an aperture so positioned that portions of seed of equal volume are removed from each part of the sack through which it travels.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2390",
      "affecting_title": "The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2390",
      "affecting_title": "The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1872",
      "affecting_title": "The Seed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3101",
      "affecting_title": "The Oil and Fibre Plant Seed (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3176/schedule/5/paragraph/12",
    "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."
}