{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-act-1997/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-act-1997/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/66",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Varieties Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-act-1997",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction under arbitration agreements.",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal shall hear and determine any matters agreed to be referred to the Tribunal by any arbitration agreement relating to the infringement of plant breeders’ rights, or to matters which include the infringement of plant breeders’ rights.\n(2) The fees payable to the Tribunal for acting under any arbitration agreement shall be such as the Tribunal may determine.\n(3) Nothing in section 4 of the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 1894 (power to name oversman) shall be taken as applying to the Tribunal.\n(4) In the application of this section to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, “arbitration agreement” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Arbitration Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1894 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1996 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/66/section/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:34.351902+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."
}