{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-act-northern-ireland-1965/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-act-northern-ireland-1965/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1965/22",
  "legislation_title": "Seeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-act-northern-ireland-1965",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Tampering with samples.",
  "text": "If any person—\n(a) tampers with any seeds so as to procure that a sample taken in the manner prescribed by seeds regulations for any purpose does not correctly represent the bulk of the seeds, or\n(b) tampers with any sample so taken, or\n(c) with intent to deceive sends, or causes or allows to be sent to any official testing station or licensed testing establishment, to be tested for any purpose, a sample of seeds which to his knowledge does not correctly represent the bulk of the seeds,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 10 applied (with modifications) (31.12.2020) by The Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/302), regs. 1, 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1965/22/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:29.257941+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."
}