{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-regulations-1993/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-regulations-1993/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2008",
  "legislation_title": "The Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Seeds to which the regulations apply",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, these Regulations apply to vegetable seeds of the kinds set out in Schedule 1 being seeds intended to be used only for the production of agricultural or horticultural crops.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply to seed intended for export outside Great Britain (other than regulation 6C (certification and labelling for export)).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (31.1.2003) by The Vegetable Seed (England) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3175), regs. 1, 32(1)(a) (with reg. 32(2)(3)) and (W.) (18.11.2005) by The Vegetable Seed (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3035), reg. 32(1)(a) (with reg. 32(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted: (E.) (1.8.2000) by The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1790), regs. 1, 2(5)(a); (S.) (1.8.2000) by The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/250), regs. 1(1), 5(a); and (W.) (29.11.2001) by The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3667), regs. 1(1), 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) substituted (S.) (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2020/445, regs. 1(1)(b), 10(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) revoked: (E.) (1.8.2000) by The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1790), regs. 1, 2(5)(c); (S.) (1.8.2000) by virtue of The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/250), regs. 1(1), 5(b); and (W.) (29.11.2001) by virtue of The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3667), regs. 1(1), 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.9.1993, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2008/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:08.334731+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."
}