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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetic-technology-precision-breeding-act-2023-commencement-no-1-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/575",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetic-technology-precision-breeding-act-2023-commencement-no-1-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force provisions of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 (c. 6) (“the Act”). The Act provides for the regulation of precision bred organisms released or marketed in England.\nThese Regulations bring into force specified provisions of the Act (to the extent that they were not already in force by virtue of section 48(2) to (5) of the Act), but in respect of precision bred organisms which are precision bred plants only (and therefore not in respect of precision bred organisms that are precision bred animals).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen. A full impact assessment has been published in relation to the Act and copies can be obtained from the website of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at www.gov.uk/defra or from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/575/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:16:06.113318+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."
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