{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/regulation-21A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/regulation-21A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Marketing Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/21A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21A",
  "heading": "Licences for temporary experiments",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by licence exempt any person or class of person from compliance with any provision of these Regulations for the purposes of a temporary experiment seeking improved alternatives to provisions of these Regulations and organised in accordance with regulations made under section 16(5) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964.\n(2) The duration of an experiment must not exceed 7 years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 21A substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (England and Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/131), regs. 1(b), 7(7); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/463/regulation/21A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:01.369601+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."
}