The Beet Seeds Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Entry of seed lots

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an application to enter a seed lot from which it is intended that a crop is to be produced from which pre-basic, basic or CS seed is to be harvested may be made to the Department by a registered person.

(2) An application made under this regulation—

(a) shall be made in such form and manner as the Department may require;

(b) shall be made—

(i) at such time as the Department may require, or

(ii) in the case of an application to enter a seed lot made after that time, at such time as the Department may otherwise allow; and

(c) shall be accompanied—

(i) unless otherwise agreed by the Department, by an official sample of seed from the seed lot that is identified by the reference number of the seed lot from which it was taken, and

(ii) by such information and other documents as the Department may require, including, if required, a copy of a qualifying seed test report relating to the seed lot.

(3) At an appropriate time following the receipt of an application made under this regulation, the Department may sow a control plot with seed taken from an official sample of seed taken from the seed lot (whether the official sample submitted in accordance with paragraph (2)(c)(i) or another official sample of seed taken from the seed lot).

(4) In this regulation—

“appropriate time” means a time during the period when seed of the relevant species is usually sown, and

“qualifying seed test report” means—

(a)

a seed test report issued in accordance with regulation 10(8), (9), (10) or (11), or

(b)

in a case where an official sample taken from the seed lot has been found to meet the conditions for the category of seed for which it was tested under regulation 10(6)(b), a seed test report issued in accordance with regulation 10(12)(b).