{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-regulations-1993/regulation-5B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-regulations-1993/regulation-5B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2008",
  "legislation_title": "The Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/5B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5B",
  "heading": "Amateur varieties",
  "text": "(1) The Ministers shall ascertain, so far as practicable, whether Standard Seed of an Amateur Variety has sufficient varietal purity by the use of official post control and the consideration of any other relevant information.\n(2) Where the results of official post control show that the seed does not have sufficient varietal purity, the Ministers shall notify in writing the person marketing the relevant seed lot of that fact.\n(3) Where, in the case of Standard Seed of an Amateur Variety, notice is given under paragraph (2), no further marketing of the relevant seed lot shall occur.\n(4) The seed must be in a package not exceeding the maximum net weight specified for each species in Annex II to Commission Directive 2009/145/EC.",
  "extent": "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": "Regs. 5A, 5B inserted (S.) (31.12.2010) by The Vegetable Seeds Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/425), regs. 1(1), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2008/regulation/5B",
    "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."
}