{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-information-notices-regulations-1998/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Information notice as to harvested material",
  "text": "(1) An information notice for the purposes of section 14(4) of the Act (harvested material)—\n(a) shall be in the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations;\n(b) shall contain the particulars set out in paragraph (2); and\n(c) shall contain a request for the information set out in paragraph (3).\n(2) The particulars referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are—\n(a) the registered name of the variety;\n(b) the species of the variety;\n(c) the date on which plant breeders' rights were granted in the variety;\n(d) confirmation that the rights were granted under the Act;\n(e) the name and address of the holder of rights;\n(f) the name and address of the agent of the holder of rights, if one has been appointed; and\n(g) the date on which the information notice was served.\n(3) The information referred to in paragraph (1)(c) is—\n(a) the name and address of the recipient of the information notice;\n(b) the name and address of the person from whom the recipient of the information notice acquired possession of the material specified in the information notice;\n(c) the date on which the recipient of the information notice acquired possession of the material specified in the information notice; and\n(d) the size of the consignment of which the material specified in the information notice formed part.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(d) modified (31.12.2020) by The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/204), regs. 1(1), 18 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1220, regs. 1(2)(b), 8(6) and S.I. 2020/769, regs. 1(2)(b), 2(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}