{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-trees-shrubs-and-woody-climbers-variation-scheme-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-trees-shrubs-and-woody-climbers-variation-scheme-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/528",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Breeders' Rights (Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers) (Variation) Scheme 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-breeders-rights-trees-shrubs-and-woody-climbers-variation-scheme-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Scheme)\nThis Scheme, which comes into force on 24th March 1995, varies the Plant Breeders' Rights (Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers) Scheme 1993.\nThe definition of “the Act” in paragraph 1(2) of that Scheme is varied to make clear that the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 has been extended to both Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man (paragraph 2).\nSeveral variations are made to the Schedule to the Plant Breeders' Rights (Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers) Scheme 1993 (paragraph 3). The periods for which plant breeders' rights shall be exercisable in respect of plant varieties of BrachyglottisForst. & Forst. f., ForsythiaVahl., Garrya ellipticaDouglas ex Lindl. and MalusMill. (excluding M. domesticaBorkh. and all varieties of apple rootstocks of Malusspp.) are varied.\nThe period prescribed in relation to GenistaL. for the purposes of section 7(2) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 (which enables a provision to be made whereby a compulsory licence granted by the Controller as respects a plant variety of a species or group specified in a Scheme shall not have effect for a prescribed period after the grant of rights in that plant variety) is reduced to two years.\nPlant breeders' rights in respect of varieties of SyringaL. excluding S. velutinaKomar. ( S. palibinianaNakai) are extended to the production or propagation of the varieties for the purpose of selling cut blooms, foliage or stems.\nA minor drafting error is also corrected in the heading of the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/528/note",
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  "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."
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