{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Maintainers of plant varieties",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall not grant an application for the substitution or addition of a maintainer of a variety accepted on to an NI Variety List unless it is satisfied the applicant is able to maintain the variety in accordance with the characteristics to which regard was had when the variety was accepted on to that NI Variety List and, in the case of a conservation variety, in its region of origin.\n(2) For the purposes of a decision under paragraph (1), the Department shall have due regard to—\n(a) the facilities and services available to the applicant for the purpose of enabling him to maintain the variety; and\n(b) such information, documents, reproductive or other material of the plant variety and any of its components as the Department may have required under regulation 4.\n(3) The Department may make arrangements for such examinations of reproductive or other material of the variety and any of its components produced by the applicant as appears to it to be necessary to establish that the material conforms with the characteristics to which regard was had when the variety was accepted on to that NI Variety List.\n(4) The applicant shall pay any fee determined under regulation 11 in respect of the costs of any examinations carried out under arrangements made by the Department for the purposes of paragraph (3).\n(5) If an application for acceptance of a variety on to a National List has not yet been determined, the Department shall not accept a person proposed in the application as a maintainer of the variety, or grant an application in respect of that application for the substitution or addition of a person proposed as a maintainer, unless it is satisfied the person—\n(a) is capable of maintaining the variety, including, in the case of a conservation variety, maintaining it in its region of origin;\n(b) has access to sufficient facilities and services for the purpose of enabling him to maintain the variety; and\n(c) is willing to maintain the variety.\n(6) The Department shall inform the applicant of a decision made by it under this regulation relating to the application and of the reasons for it.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}