{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998/regulation-2.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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Plant Varieties Act 1997; and\n“the holder of rights” in relation to a variety means the holder of plant breeders' rights in that variety.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations 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/1998/1024/regulation/2",
    "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."
}