{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2020/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-variety-lists-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Applications in relation to NI Variety Lists",
  "text": "(1) Applications shall be made to the Department in accordance with this regulation, for acceptance by the Department—\n(a) of a plant variety of a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 on to an NI Variety List;\n(b) of a renewal of an acceptance of the kind referred to in subparagraph (a);\n(c) of an amendment—\n(i) to any information published in an NI Variety List in relation to a variety accepted on to that List; or\n(ii) to any information included in an application already made but not yet determined by the Department;\n(d) of a change by a maintainer of a variety on an NI Variety List to the name of the variety; or\n(e) of a change to the reference in an NI Variety List of any maintainer of the variety.\n(2) The application shall be in writing and—\n(a) shall include such information and documents relevant to the application as the Department may require for the purpose of determining the application; and\n(b) shall be accompanied by any fee determined under regulation 11 in relation to the application.\n(3) An application for acceptance of a plant variety on to an NI Variety List shall include—\n(a) such reproductive or other material of the plant variety, and any of its components,; and\n(b) where a previous application has been made in a member State for acceptance of the plant variety concerned on any list published in that member State corresponding to an NI Variety List, such copies of the documents and information relating to the previous application,\nas the Department may require.\n(4) An application for—\n(a) a change to the reference in an NI Variety List to a maintainer of a variety on that List; or\n(b) the addition of a reference in an NI Variety List to a maintainer of a variety on that List,\nshall include such reproductive or other material of the plant variety, and of any of its components, as the Department may require.\n(5) If any document required by paragraph (2)(a) or (3)(b) to be included with an application is in a language other than English the Department may require it to be accompanied by a complete and adequate translation into the English language.\n(6) If the Department has reasonable grounds for believing that any information, document, reproductive or other material of a plant variety relating to but not included with an application referred to in paragraph (1) is necessary or desirable for the purpose of determining the application, the Department may, by notice to the applicant specifying the information, document or material, require the information, document or material to be given to it within such reasonable period as it may specify.\n(7) If an applicant—\n(a) fails to comply with a notice under paragraph (6); or\n(b) fails to pay any fee determined under regulation 11 in relation to the application, within such period as may be specified for the payment of the fee under that regulation,\nthe application shall be treated as if it had been withdrawn.\n(8) Where a person has made an application under this regulation in respect of any matter relating to a variety that person may not make another application in respect of that matter until the previous application has been finally determined or withdrawn.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/302/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:41:23.519524+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."
}