{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-heterogeneous-material-temporary-experiment-england-regulations-2023/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-heterogeneous-material-temporary-experiment-england-regulations-2023/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/676",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Marketing (Heterogeneous Material) (Temporary Experiment) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-heterogeneous-material-temporary-experiment-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2011 Regulations” means the Seed Marketing Regulations 2011;\n“the applicant” means a person applying for a licence in accordance with regulation 5;\n“the experiment” means the temporary experiment organised in accordance with these Regulations and complying with the purpose specified in regulation 21A of the 2011 Regulations;\n“heterogeneous material” means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank which presents common phenotypic characteristics and has been developed by crossing multiple varieties of a plant species, with the resulting plants being genetically diverse and having varied characteristics;\n“lot” means one or more units of a single commodity, identifiable by its homogeneity of composition and origin, which form part of a consignment;\n“low-input agriculture” means systems of crop production managed with reduced use of external inputs, such as fertilisers and fuel, resulting in a more sustainable agricultural system;\n“marketing” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the 2011 Regulations;\n“participant” means a person granted a licence to participate in the experiment referred to in regulation 3;\n“population” means heterogeneous material which, as a grouping, is—\n(a) identifiable on the bases set out in regulation 13(1), but insufficiently uniform to be a variety,\n(b) characterised by a high level of genetic and phenotypic diversity between individual reproductive units, so that the plant grouping is represented by the material as a whole and not by a small number of plants, and\n(c) not a mixture of varieties;\n“variety” has the meaning given by section 1(3) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/463 (“the 2011 Regulations”); relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2011/2992, 2012/3035, 2016/613 and 2019/131 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 21A was inserted by S.I. 2012/3035 and substituted by S.I. 2019/131."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c. 66."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/676/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:43:53.193967+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."
}