Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PLANT BREEDER'S RIGHTS ACT 1994 - SECT 36

             (1)  A person may, at any reasonable time, inspect an application for PBR in a plant variety (including any detailed description of the plant variety given in support of the application) or an objection lodged in respect of that application (including that detailed description).

             (2)  A person is entitled, on payment of such fee as is prescribed, to be given a copy of an application for PBR in a plant variety, of an objection to such an application, or of a detailed description of the plant variety.

             (3)  However, this section does not entitle a person to inspect the part of the application that contains the information referred to in paragraph 26(2)(ga) or to have a copy of the part of the application containing that information, unless the person is:

                     (a)  the applicant; or

                     (b)  the applicant's authorised agent; or

                     (c)  the Minister; or

                     (d)  the Secretary; or

                     (e)  a person who is required to inspect the part of the application in the course of performing his or her duties in accordance with this Act; or

                      (f)  a person prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.