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Statutory Instruments
SEEDS
Made
30th June 1977
Laid before Parliament
11th July 1977
Coming into Operation
1st August 1977
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 7(1)(b), (2)(a), (6) and (7) of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such organisations as appear to them appropriate as representing any interests concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:-
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 (Amendment) Regulations 1977, and shall come into operation on 1st August 1977.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. In section 16(3)(f) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 (which enables the Ministers to make regulations requiring persons who grow and deal in seeds to supply information as to, and to keep records of, seeds crops grown and harvested by them) for the word "acreages" there shall be substituted the word "areas".
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 28th June 1977.
L.S.
John Silkin
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Bruce Millan
Secretary of State for Scotland
30th June 1977
These Regulations, which are made under section 7 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, provide for the substitution of the word "areas" for the word "acreages" in section 16(3)(f) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964.