{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-tomatoes-scheme-1993/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-tomatoes-scheme-1993/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2777",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Tomatoes) Scheme 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-tomatoes-scheme-1993",
  "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 the varieties of tomato in respect of which grants of plant breeders' rights may be made and also prescribes the period of 20 years as that during which the rights may be exercised (paragraphs 2 and 3).\nThe 1964 Act, as read with this Scheme, provides that infringements of the rights in the registered name of a variety of tomato may be the subject of legal proceedings when committed in connection with any such variety (paragraph 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2777/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:47:32.462005+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."
}