{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-tribunal-rules-1974/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/1136",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal Rules 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-tribunal-rules-1974",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS SEEDS\nMade 26th June 1974\nLaid before Parliament 11th July 1974\nComing into Operation 1st August 1974\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 4 to the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964, after consultation with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 10 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 as applied to the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal, and with the approval of the Treasury in regard to the fees prescribed by these Rules, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/1136/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}