{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-discontinuation-of-prior-use-exemption-scotland-order-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/460",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Discontinuation of Prior Use Exemption) (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-discontinuation-of-prior-use-exemption-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which extends to Scotland only, comes into force on 4th November 2005.\nThis Order discontinues the prior use exemption in section 9(5) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997 (the “1997 Act”) whereby in relation to varieties farm-saved prior to the 1997 Act coming into force (8th May 1998) a farmer is exempted from the liability under section 9(3) of the 1997 Act to pay to the holder of plant variety rights a “sensibly lower” royalty than would otherwise be payable for the use of a protected variety of farm-saved seed (article 2).\nNo Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/460/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:13.573168+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."
}