The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/657
• Sections: 18

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 12th April 1991.

Section 2 Amendment of the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990

(1) The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3 (payment of fees)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) for the words “Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (2) below”;

(ii) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted;

(iii) for sub-paragraph (d) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

(d) a renewal fee, being the new fee set out in the second column of Part III of the Schedule in relation to a year of retention of a plant variety in a National List opposite the reference in the first column of the said Part III to the plant variety of the kind retained in the National List, such fee being payable, subject to regulation 4(3) below, before the beginning of the year of retention in the National List;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (e) “Part IV” shall be substituted for “Part V” in each of the three places in which it occurs;

(b) paragraph (3) shall be omitted.

(3) In paragraph (2) of regulation 4 (renewal fees) “Part III” shall be substituted for “Part IV”.

(4) For the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Section 1

Any variety

Section 1

A cereal (excluding maize) variety

Section 1

A vegetable variety (excluding a vegetable pea or broad bean variety)

Section 1

Application for the substitution of a name in a National List

Section 2

A maize variety

Section 2

Any other variety (including a vegetable pea or broad bean variety)

Section 2

Making written representation to the Ministers

Section 3

A potato variety

Section 3

Attending to be heard by a person appointed by the Ministers

Section 4

A beetroot, Brussels sprout, cabbage, carrot, celery, curly kale, leek, onion radish, turnip or fodder variety

Section 4

Purchase of a report from a testing authority in another country

Section 5

A herbage, field pea, vegetable pea, field bean or broad bean variety

Section 5

Observation plot—trials for value for cultivation and use

Section 6

An oil and fibre (including oilseed rape) variety

Section 6

Entry in a National List

Section 7

Any other variety