{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-genetic-technology-precision-breeding-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-genetic-technology-precision-breeding-regulations-2025/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348269123",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-genetic-technology-precision-breeding-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions for release",
  "text": "(1) Where the circumstances in paragraph (2) apply, the procedure in paragraph (3) applies.\n(2) The circumstances are—\n(a) a person (in this regulation, “the regulation 9B notifier”) has given the Secretary of State a notice of an intention to release a qualifying higher plant in England pursuant to regulation 9B of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 2002 before the coming into force of these Regulations, and\n(b) the qualifying higher plants covered by the notification in sub-paragraph (a) include plants which have not been released before the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(3) The regulation 9B notifier may release the qualifying higher plants referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) which have not been released before the coming into force of these Regulations without having given the Secretary of State a release notice in accordance with the minimum period specified in regulation 3(4) provided that a release notice covering the qualifying higher plants is given to the Secretary of State before the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.\n(4) A release notice given to the Secretary of State before the date these Regulations come into force may be treated by the Secretary of State as having been given on that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See also regulation 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2443 amended by S.I. 2019/88, 2022/347; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. “Qualifying higher plant” is defined in regulation 2 of those Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348269123/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:31.398204+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}