{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plants-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1998/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plants-breeders-rights-fees-regulations-1998/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Non-payment of fees—other than renewal fees",
  "text": "(1) If a fee payable pursuant to these Regulations, other than a renewal fee, shall not have been paid on the due date, the Controller shall not be obliged to take any further steps in relation to that matter until the fee shall have been paid.\n(2) In the case of a fee payable pursuant to regulation 3(a) or (b), if the fee remains unpaid after the expiration of 28 days from the service by the Controller on the applicant of a notice informing him that continued failure to pay the fee may result in his application being refused, the Controller may refuse the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1021/regulation/4",
    "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."
}