{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-plant-variety-rights-compulsory-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-plant-variety-rights-compulsory-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/247",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents and Plant Variety Rights (Compulsory Licensing) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-plant-variety-rights-compulsory-licensing-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Variation and revocation",
  "text": "(1) Any person may at any time apply to the Controller of Plant Variety Rights in accordance with Breeders’ regulations to extend, limit or in any other respect vary a compulsory plant variety licence or cross licence granted under regulation 14(2) and, on making such application shall pay the appropriate plant breeders’ fee, and on receipt by the Controller of Plant Varieties of the application and the fee, the controllers shall consider and process the application and may extend, limit or in any other respect vary the compulsory plant variety licence or cross licence granted under regulation 14(2).\n(2) Any person may at any time apply to the Controller of Plant Variety Rights in accordance with Breeders’ regulations to revoke the grant of a compulsory plant variety licence or a cross licence under regulation 14(2) if the circumstances which led to the grant of the compulsory patent licence or the cross licence under regulation 14(2) have ceased to exist or are unlikely to recur and, on making such application, the applicant shall pay the appropriate plant breeders’ fee.\n(3) On receipt of an application under paragraph (2) and payment of the appropriate plant breeders’ fee, the controllers shall consider and process the application in accordance with Breeders’ regulations and if the controllers are satisfied that the circumstances which led to the grant of the compulsory plant variety licence or the cross licence under regulation 14(2) have ceased to exist or are unlikely to recur, the controllers may revoke the grant of the compulsory plant variety licence or the cross licence under regulation 14(2), subject to such terms and conditions as they think necessary for the protection of the legitimate interests of the holder of the compulsory plant variety licence or cross licence granted under regulation 14(2).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16(4)-(7) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 11 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 30); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/247/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:38.426667+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."
}