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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-registration-licensing-and-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1098",
  "legislation_title": "The Seeds (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-registration-licensing-and-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Seeds (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) Regulations 1985 by providing that (1) seed testing stations licensed to test seeds for the purposes of seeds regulations shall not derive any private gain in carrying out such tests (other than any fees payable under seeds regulations) and (2) licensed crop inspectors and seed samplers shall not derive any private gain in carrying out their functions (other than any fees payable under seeds regulations) (regulation 2(a) and (b)).\nThe Regulations implement in part Council Directive 66/401/EEC (as amended) (OJ No. 125, 11.7.66, p.2298/66) (OJ/SE 1965—66, p.132) on the marking of fodder plant seed, Council Directive 66/402/EEC (as amended) (OJ No. 125, 11.7.66, p.2309/66) (OJ/SE 1965—66, p.143) on the marketing of cereal seed, Council Directive 69/208/EEC (OJ No. L169, 10.7.69, p.3) (OJ/SE 1969 (ii), p.315) on the marketing of seeds of oil and fibre plants, Council Directive 70/458/EEC (OJ No. L225, 12.10.70, p.7) on the marketing of vegetable seeds and Council Directive 66/400/EEC (OJ No. L125, 11.7.66, p.2290/66) (OJ/SE 1965—66, p.143) on the marketing of beet seed, all of which Directives require that a person carrying out the testing, sampling and inspection of seeds for the purposes of those Directives shall not derive any private gain from such activities.\nThe Regulations also amend the form of certificate prescribed by the 1985 Regulations of the result of a test of a sample of seeds carried out for the enforcement of seeds regulations so as to include reference to the result of a test for pea bacterial blight infection (regulation 2(c)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1098/note",
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  "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."
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