{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Agency",
  "text": "The Controller shall be entitled to require any holder of rights or applicant for the grant of plant breeders' rights resident outside the United Kingdom to appoint an agent within the United Kingdom with authority to act for him in relation to matters which are the subject of the relevant legislation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/204), regs. 1(1), 17(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 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/17",
    "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."
}