{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-sweet-peas-scheme-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-sweet-peas-scheme-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Sweet Peas) Scheme 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-sweet-peas-scheme-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Scheme)\nThis Scheme, made under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964, prescribes all varieties of sweet peas as varieties in respect of which grants of plant breeders' rights may be made and prescribes the period of 20 years as that during which the rights may be exercised (paragraphs 2 and 3).\nThe Act, as read with this Scheme, provides that infringements of the rights in the registered name of a variety of sweet peas may be the subject of legal proceedings when committed in connection with any other variety of sweet peas (paragraph 4).\nThe Scheme also provides that a compulsory licence granted by the Controller of Plant Variety Rights in respect of a variety of sweet peas shall not have effect during a period of three years from the date of the grant of rights in that variety (paragraph 5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/529/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:15:04.661599+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."
}