{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/schedule-A1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/schedule-A1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/37",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977",
  "path": "schedule/A1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n...\n“farmer’s own holding” means any land which a farmer actually exploits for plant growing, whether as his property or otherwise managed under his own responsibility and on his own account;\n“the gazette” means the gazette published under section 34 of the Plant Variety and Seeds Act 1964 ;\n“protected material” means plant propagating material which incorporates material subject to a patent;\n“relevant activity” means the use by a farmer of the product of his harvest for propagation or multiplication by him on his own holding, where the product of the harvest constitutes or contains protected material;\n“relevant rights holder” means the proprietor of a patent to which protected material is subject;\n“seed” includes seed potatoes;\n“seed year” means the period from 1st July in one year to 30th June in the following year, both dates inclusive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (28.7.2000) by S.I. 2000/2037, reg. 8(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. A1 para. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 39(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1964 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/37/schedule/A1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:17.133485+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."
}