{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-act-1964/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-act-1964/section-34.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": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "The gazette.",
  "text": "(1) The Ministers shall from time to time publish a gazette (in this Act referred to as “the gazette”), and shall use the gazette as one of the means of publishing notice of matters to be published under this Act or Part I of the Plant Varieties Act 1997.\n(2) It shall be no defence in civil or criminal proceedings to show that at any time a person did not know of an entry in the register under section 18 of the Plant Varieties Act 1997, . . . , if before that time notice of that entry . . . had been published in the gazette.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(1) inserted (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 51(1)(a); S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(2) substituted (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 51(1)(b); S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), s. 4, Sch. 3 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 34-36 extended (with modifications) (1.8.2016) by The Plant Varieties and Seeds (Isle of Man) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/758), arts. 1, 2(2)(c), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/14/section/34",
    "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."
}