PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS ACT 1987 No. 2, 1987 - SECT 34
Plant variety rights subject to conditions
PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS ACT 1987 No. 2, 1987 - SECT 34
Plant variety rights subject to conditions
34. (1) Where the Minister considers it necessary, in the public interest,
that plant variety rights in respect of a new plant variety should be subject
to conditions restricting the assignment of those rights, to conditions
requiring, or relating to, the licensing of persons to sell, or produce for
sale plants, or reproductive material of plants, of that variety or to other
conditions, the Minister may, at the time when those rights are granted or at
any time while those rights subsist, by instrument under his or her hand,
impose those conditions.
(2) Where the Minister imposes conditions on plant variety rights und er
sub-section (1)-
(a) the Secretary shall give to the grantee a copy of the instrument
setting out those conditions;
(b) the Secretary shall give public notice of those conditions; and
(c) the Registrar shall enter particulars of those conditions in the
Register.