{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-naming-and-fees-regulations-2006/regulation-3E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-naming-and-fees-regulations-2006/regulation-3E.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/3E",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3E",
  "heading": "Selection of plant variety names: identical or confusing names",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of regulation 3(2A)(c).\n(2) In determining whether a proposed name may be confused with another name of a plant variety of a description mentioned in regulation 3(2A)(c), the Controller must regard such confusion as likely to arise if the difference between the proposed name and the name of a variety of a closely related species—\n(a) consists only of a difference of a single letter or digit, or the transposition of two letters;\n(b) consists only of a difference in accents on letters in the names.\n(3) If the Controller regards such confusion as likely to arise, he may not accept the proposed name as suitable.",
  "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/3E",
    "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."
}