{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-regulations-1998/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Plant Varieties Act 1997;\n“holder of rights” means, in relation to a variety, the holder of plant breeders' rights in that variety;\n“the Office” means the Plant Variety Rights Office;\n“plant breeders' certificate” means a document issued by the Controller as evidence of a grant of plant breeders' rights;\n“plant breeders' rights” means rights which may be granted in accordance with Part I of the Act;\n“plant breeders' rights licensee” means, in relation to a variety, a person authorised under section 6(2);\n“plant varieties records” means the records kept by the Controller pursuant to regulation 12(2);\n“persons concerned” has the meaning given to it in regulation 7(2);\n“the register” means the register kept by the Controller pursuant to regulation 12(1); and\n“relevant legislation” means—\n(a)the Act;\n(b)these Regulations; and\n(c)regulation 18 of the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations—\n(a) to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations;\n(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number; and\n(c) to a numbered section shall be construed as a reference to that section in the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 8.5.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 18 of the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/294) is amended by regulation 21(4) of these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1027/regulation/2",
    "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."
}