{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-act-1964/schedule-2/part-I/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-act-1964/schedule-2/part-I/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/14",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-act-1964",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/I/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the variety was independently bred or discovered by two or more persons, the first of those persons (and any successors in title of theirs) who makes an application relating to the variety under this Act shall be the person entitled to a grant of plant breeders’ rights.\n(2) As between two persons making applications on the same date, the one who was first in a position to make a valid application for the grant of plant breeders’ rights (or would have been first in that position if Part I of this Act and the relevant scheme had always been in force) shall be the person entitled to a grant of plant breeders’ rights.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Plant Varieties Act 1983 (c. 17, SIF 2:9), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 8(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word substituted by Plant Varieties Act 1983 (c. 17, SIF 2:9), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 8(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/14/schedule/2/part/I/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:55.729029+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."
}