{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Information Notices) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 14(2) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997 provides that, in infringement proceedings, certain presumptions apply in respect of harvested material which is the subject of an information notice if the information requested in the notice is not provided within a prescribed period. The presumptions are that the material was obtained through unauthorised use of propagating material and that the holder of plant breeders' rights in the material did not have a reasonable opportunity before the material was obtained to exercise his rights in relation to the unauthorised use of the propagating material.\nThese Regulations prescribe the form of an information notice, the information which is to be requested in an information notice and certain other particulars which must be included in an information notice (regulation 3 and the Schedule).\nThese Regulations also prescribe that 21 days is the period within which the information must be provided (regulation 4).\nA Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared and a copy has been placed in the library of both Houses of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, White House Lane, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LF.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1024/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:17.285071+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."
}