The Fodder Plant Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1352
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Fodder Plant Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st August 1990.

Section 2 Amendment

(1) The Fodder Plant Seeds Regulations 1985 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation)–

in paragraph (3) in the definition of “Commercial Seed”–

under the heading “Grasses”, the entry “Brown top” shall be deleted;

under the heading “Legumes”, the entries “Birdsfoot trefoil”, “Trefoil, Black medick” and “Alsike clover” shall be deleted.

(3) In Schedule 4, Part II (conditions relating to the seeds)–

(a) for paragraph 4 there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

(4) For each seed lot of Pre-basic Seed or Basic Seed of field beans, a minimum of 1,000 seeds and, for each seed lot of Certified Seed of the First Generation of field beans, a minimum of 500 seeds shall be officially examined for Ascochyta fabae and the level of infection shall not exceed 1 seed in 1,000 for Pre-basic Seed, 2 seeds in 1,000 for Basic Seed and 2 seeds in 500 for Certified Seed of the First Generation.

(b) in the second table in paragraph 5–

(i) above the entry for “Red top”, under the appropriate columns (1) to (7) there shall be added–

Brown top 75 – 90 0.3 2.0 e

(ii) in column (7) “e” shall be substituted for the entries for “Birdsfoot trefoil”, “Trefoil” and “Alsike clover”;

(c) in the second table in paragraph 6–

(i) for “Red top” in column (1) there shall be substituted “Red top and brown top”;

(ii) in column (15) “t” shall be substituted for the entries for “Birdsfoot trefoil”, “Trefoil” and “Alsike clover”.