The Oil and Fibre Plant Seed (Wales) Regulations 2004

Lodging of seed test reports

12.—(1) A registered person to whom a final seed test report has been sent shall lodge the report with the National Assembly for Wales —

(a) except in relation to seed to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, within one month of the report being issued; and

(b) in a case where the seed to which the final seed test report relates —

(i) is of a variety that is not listed, or

(ii) is an unlisted component of a hybrid variety that is not listed,

within one month of the date on which the variety or hybrid variety (as the case may be) is listed.

(2) An application to lodge a final seed test report —

(a) shall be made in such form and manner as the National Assembly for Wales may require, and

(b) shall be accompanied by the final seed test report and such other information and documents as the National Assembly for Wales may require.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the National Assembly for Wales shall acknowledge receipt of each final seed test report lodged with it.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), unless specifically requested to do so by the applicant, the National Assembly for Wales shall not individually acknowledge the receipt of each final seed test report lodged with it by the applicant but shall periodically provide the applicant with a list of those seed lots for which the applicant has lodged a final seed test report with it.

(5) Where the National Assembly for Wales has previously provided the applicant with a seed test report list, the list periodically provided to the applicant under paragraph (4) shall list only those seed lots for which the applicant has lodged a final seed test report with it during the period since it last provided the applicant with a seed test report list.

(6) In this regulation “final seed test report” means a seed test report issued in accordance with regulation 11(8), (9), (11) or (12)(1)(b).