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PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS ACT 1987 No. 2, 1987 - SECT 11 Public notice

PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS ACT 1987 No. 2, 1987 - SECT 11

Public notice
11. (1) In addition to giving public notice of matters of which the Secretary
is required to give notice by this Act or by the regulations, the Secretary
may give public notice of other matters relating to this Act where the
Secretary considers it necessary or desirable to do so.

(2) Subject to sub-sections (3) and (5), where the Secretary is required or
permitted to give public notice of a matter for the purposes of this Act, the
Secretary shall do so by publishing notice in writing of the matter in the
Gazette.

(3) Subject to sub-section (4), where the Secretary considers that the volume
of public notices of matters to be given for the purposes of this Act
justifies the issue from time to time of a journal, to be called the Plant
Varieties Journal, and the publication of notices of those matters in that
journal instead of in the Gazette, the Secretary may issue that journal and,
during the period in which the journal is being issued, shall give public
notice of those matters by publishing notice in writing of them in that
journal.

(4) The Secretary-

   (a)  shall not issue the Plant Varieties Journal unless and until he or she
        has given public notice of the intention to do so; and

   (b)  shall not cease to issue that journal unless and until he or she has
        given public notice of the intention to cease to issue the journal.

(5) Subject to sub-section (6), where the Secretary considers that it is
desirable to give public notices of matters for the purposes of this Act by
publishing notice of those matters in a particular periodical other than the
Gazette or the Plant Varieties Journal, the Secretary shall, unless it has
become impossible to publish notice of those matters in that particular
periodical, give public notice of those matters by publishing notice in
writing of them in that particular periodical.

(6) The Secretary-

   (a)  shall not publish notices of matters in a particular periodical in
        accordance with sub-section (5) unless and until he or she has given
        public notice of the intention to do so specifying the publication;

   (b)  where the Secretary wishes to discontinue publishing notices of
        matters in a particular periodical in accordance with sub-section (5),
        the Secretary shall give public notice of his or her intention to so
        discontinue and, after giving that notice, shall so discontinue; and

   (c)  if it becomes impossible to publish notices of matters in accordance
        with sub-section (5) in a particular journal because the journal has
        ceased publication or otherwise, the Secretary shall publish a notice
        in writing in the Gazette of the discontinuance of the publication of
        those notices in that publication.