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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-regulations-2000/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-regulations-2000/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2037",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Patents Act 1977",
  "text": "(1) Section 125A (disclosure of invention by specification: availability of samples of micro-organisms) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the sidenote, for “micro-organisms” substitute “biological material”.\n(3) In subsection (1), for “requires for its performance the use of a micro-organism” substitute “involves the use of or concerns biological material”.\n(4) In subsection (2)(a), for “micro-organism” substitute “biological material”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2037/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:04.281000+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."
}