S.L. 433.7 Art. 9Seed poatatoes. Cap. 433.

Seed potatoes shall meet the requirements of the Plant

Quarantine Act, and shall derive in direct line from potato material obtained under an officially approved programme which has been found free of the organism in official or officially supervised testing using the relevant method set out in Schedule II. The testing shall be carried out by the Plant Health Department:

(a) in cases where there has been confirmed any finding of the organism in local seed potato production,

(i) by testing of the earlier propagations, including the initial clonal selection and systematic testing of basic seed potato clones; or

(ii) in cases where it has been established that there is no clonal relationship, by testing of all basic seed potato clones or earlier propagations including the initial clonal selection, and

(b) in other cases, either on each plant of the initial clonal selection or on representative samples of the basic seed potatoes or earlier propagations.