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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-discontinuation-of-prior-use-exemption-wales-order-2006/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-discontinuation-of-prior-use-exemption-wales-order-2006/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1261",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Discontinuation of Prior Use Exemption) (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-discontinuation-of-prior-use-exemption-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS, WALES\nMade 3 May 2006\nComing into force 12 May 2006\nThe National Assembly for Wales in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(6) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997 and now vested in it after consultation with such organisations as appear to it to be representative of persons likely to be substantially affected, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 66. see section 49(1) for a definition of “the Ministers”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 2 and Schedule 1 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) transferred the functions of the Ministers under Section 9 of the Plant Varieties Act 1997, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1261/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:52.545355+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."
}