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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-national-lists-of-varieties-regulations-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3510",
  "legislation_title": "The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-national-lists-of-varieties-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Sufficient uniformity",
  "text": "A plant variety shall be regarded as sufficiently uniform if, apart from a very few aberrations, the plants of which it is composed are, account being taken of the distinctive features of the reproductive system of the plants, similar or genetically identical as regards the characteristics, taken as a whole, considered by the appropriate authority for the purpose of determining whether the variety is sufficiently uniform.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (N.I.) (31.12.2020) by The Seeds (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1294), regs. 1(2)(b), 5 (with savings and transitional provisions in S.R. 2020/302, reg. 25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 3 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Seeds (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1294), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(14)(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3510/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:26:27.484932+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."
}