{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964;\n“the Controller” means the Controller of Plant Variety Rights;\n“plant breeders' rights” means rights which may be granted in accordance with Part I of the Act;\n“the principal Regulations” means the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978;\n“renewal fee” means a fee payable in respect of the continued exercise of plant breeders' rights in a plant variety.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to “the Schedule” shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/294, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2947",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/618/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:27.403513+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."
}