{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-farm-saved-seed-specified-information-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-farm-saved-seed-specified-information-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1026",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Farm Saved Seed) (Specified Information) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-farm-saved-seed-specified-information-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Plant Varieties Act 1997;\n“farm saved seed” means the product of the harvest obtained in the circumstances described in section 9(1) of the Act;\n“relevant activity” means the use of farm saved seed in the circumstances described in section 9(1) of the Act;\n“relevant rights holder” means a person who holds plant breeders' rights in a relevant variety;\n“relevant variety” means a variety of a specified species or group;\n“seed” includes seed potatoes;\n“seed year” means the period from 1st July in one year to 30th June in the following year, both dates inclusive; and\n“specified species or group” means a species or group specified for the purposes of section 9(2) of the Act by order made by the Ministers.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations—\n(a) to a numbered section shall be construed as a reference to the section bearing that number in the Act;\n(b) to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations;\n(c) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 8.5.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1026/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:15.766494+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."
}