{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plants-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plants-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1021",
  "legislation_title": "The Plants Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plants-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Plant Varieties Act 1997;\n“Community plant variety right” means a right granted in accordance with the Council Regulation;\n“the principal Regulations” means the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1998; and\n“renewal fee” means a fee payable in respect of the continued exercise of plant breeders' rights in a plant variety.\n(2) Words and phrases defined in the principal Regulations shall have the same meaning when used in these Regulations.\n(3) Any reference in these Regulations in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number.\n(4) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998/1027."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1021/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:19.638808+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."
}