{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2020/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Preparation of NI Variety Lists of plant varieties and publication in the Gazette",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes referred to in paragraph (2) the Department shall—\n(a) prepare the NI Variety Lists of plant varieties of the species, specified in Part I of Schedule 1, accepted on to the NI Variety Lists by the Department; and\n(b) publish these NI Variety Lists in the Gazette.\n(2) The Department shall accept a plant variety on to an NI Variety List in accordance with these Regulations—\n(a) for purposes in relation to the marketing of seed of the variety; and\n(b) in the case of a plant variety, other than a B List vegetable variety, for purposes in relation to the certification of seed of the variety,\nand the lists of vegetable plant varieties shall be subdivided into B list vegetable varieties and varieties whose seed may be certified as “pre-basic seed”, “basic seed” or “certified seed”, or may be controlled as “standard seed”, in accordance with the Seed Marketing Regulations.\n(3) The NI Variety Lists shall not include—\n(a) varieties intended for use solely as components of final varieties except to the extent that seeds belonging to such varieties are to be marketed under the names of those components; and\n(b) varieties, the seed or propagating material of which, are intended for export.\n(4) In respect of each variety accepted on to an NI Variety List, the reference to the variety in that List shall include—\n(a) a reference to the name under which the variety is accepted; and\n(b) except in respect of any B List vegetable variety widely known on 1st January 1973, a reference to the maintainer of the variety.\n(5) If any plant variety accepted on to an NI Variety List is a genetically modified variety the Department shall publish a clear indication of that fact in that List together with the reference number under which the variety has been accepted for marketing in accordance with the relevant legislation.\n(6) The Department shall publish in the Gazette notice of any—\n(a) application made in accordance with these Regulations;\n(b) application so made which is withdrawn;\n(c) proposed relevant decision and the reasons for it;\n(d) relevant decision;\n(e) decision of the Tribunal made on appeal brought in respect of a relevant decision; and\n(f) other change made to an NI Variety List or an application in respect of an NI Variety List,\ntogether with, in respect of any notice containing information about a genetically modified variety, a clear indication of that fact.\n(7) Where an application for acceptance of a variety on to an NI Variety List is yet to be determined, the Department shall not publish in the Gazette details of any proposed maintainer or proposed substitution or addition of a maintainer of that variety.\n(8) Where the Department proposes to make a relevant decision, the Department, in addition to publishing in the Gazette notice of the proposed decision, shall also publish in the Gazette—\n(a) a statement that oral and written representations may be made about the proposed relevant decision by persons likely to be affected by it; and\n(b) a statement of the manner in which, and the period (not being less than 14 days) within which, written representations, and a request for oral representations, may be made.\n(9) The Department shall not make a relevant decision before the expiry of the period published in the Gazette as being the period within which written representations, and a request for oral representations, in respect of the proposal for the decision may be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/302/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:41:23.519524+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."
}