Regulation 13 Maintenance of accepted plant varieties
The maintainer of a plant variety on an NI Variety List, other than a B-List vegetable variety widely known on 1 January 1973, shall maintain the variety according to accepted practices for maintaining the variety.
The maintainer of a plant variety shall not maintain that variety except—
in the United Kingdom or a member State; or
in a third country referred to in the Equivalence Decision.
The maintainer of a conservation variety shall not maintain that variety except in its region of origin.
The maintainer of a plant variety shall keep records of all the generations of the variety the person maintains and shall on demand produce at that person’s own expense such records for inspection by or on behalf of the Department and shall also, if so required at any time, at the person’s own expense deliver to the Department samples of seed of that variety.
The maintainer of a plant variety shall at all reasonable times give to an authorised officer such facilities for the inspection or examination of any—
plants, whether growing or harvested;
plant materials; and
records,
as the authorised officer considers necessary or desirable for the purposes of checking compliance with this regulation.
If, for the purposes of checking compliance with this regulation, an authorised officer may, at any premises, take a sample of any seed of a variety requiring to be maintained under these Regulations.