{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-naming-and-fees-regulations-2006/regulation-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-naming-and-fees-regulations-2006/regulation-3B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/648",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Naming and Fees) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-naming-and-fees-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/3B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Selection of plant variety names: appellation or codes",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of regulation 3(2A)(b).\n(2) If a proposed name is not in the form of a code, the Controller must not accept it as suitable, on the grounds that it may commonly cause its users difficulties as regards recognition or reproduction, if it—\n(a) consists of a single letter;\n(b) consists of, or contains as a separate element, a series of letters not forming a word readily pronounceable by a person who speaks only English;\n(c) contains a number;\n(d) consists of three or more words or elements, unless the words taken together make it easily recognisable or reproducible;\n(e) consists of or contains an excessively long word or element;\n(f) contains a punctuation mark or other symbol, an upper and lower case mixture, subscript or superscript, or a design.\n(3) If a proposed name is in the form of a code, the Controller must not accept it as suitable, on the ground that it may commonly cause its users difficulties as regards recognition or reproduction, if it—\n(a) consists of a number or numbers only;\n(b) consists of a single letter;\n(c) contains more than ten letters, or letters and numbers;\n(d) contains more than four alternating groups of a letter or letters and a number or numbers;\n(e) contains a punctuation mark or other symbol, subscript, superscript or a design.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3A-3G inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/204), regs. 1(1), 19(6) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1220, regs. 1(2)(b), 8(7)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/648/regulation/3B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:49.961536+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."
}