{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/189",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations consolidate with amendments the Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1985, as amended. They prescribe fees in respect of various matters relating to plant breeders' rights arising under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 or the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978, as amended (regulation 3 and Schedule). The fees are payable to the Controller of Plant Variety Rights.\nThere is a general increase in fees payable on making an application for a grant of plant breeders' rights (regulation 3(1)(a) and Part I of Schedule) or payable in respect of tests or examination of a plant variety (regulation 3(1)(b) and Part II of Schedule), the continued exercise of plant breeders' rights in a plant variety (regulation 3(1)(c) and Part III of Schedule) and various miscellaneous matters (regulation 3(1)(d) and Part IV of Schedule). Some fees remain the same and a few are reduced. Old fees are shown in the Schedule in italics.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/189/note",
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  "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."
}