{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1027",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Compulsory licences—coming into effect",
  "text": "The period for the purposes of section 17(8)(a) (which provides that regulations may specify the period which must elapse between the grant of plant breeders' rights and the coming into force of a compulsory licence) shall be 2 years as respects all varieties.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 excluded (1.3.2002) by The Patents and Plant Variety Rights (Compulsory Licensing) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/247), regs. 1(1), 23(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 8.5.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1027/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:15.062051+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."
}