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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-1n24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/64",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1n24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "“plant protection products”: active substances and preparations containing one or more active substances, put up in the form in which they are supplied to the user, intended to:\n(a) protect plants or plant products against all harmful organisms or prevent the action of such organisms, in so far as such substances or preparations are not otherwise defined below;\n(b) influence the life processes of plants, other than as a nutrient (e.g. plant growth regulators);\n(c) preserve plant products, in so far as such substances or products are not subject to special Council or Commission provisions on preservatives;\n(d) destroy undesirable plants; or\n(e) destroy parts of plants, check or prevent undesirable growth of plants;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/64/schedule/1/paragraph/1n24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:47.107599+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."
}