PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS ACT 1987 No. 2, 1987 - SECT 8 Certain persons not to acquire plant variety rights

PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS ACT 1987 No. 2, 1987 - SECT 8

8. (1) The Secretary, the Registrar or a person who, during the preceding 12
months has held, or performed the duties of, the office of Secretary or
Registrar of Plant Variety Rights shall not apply for plant variety rights or
acquire, otherwise than by will or by operation of law, any such rights or an
interest in any such rights.
Penalty: $2,000.

(2) A grant of plant variety rights applied for in contravention of
sub-section (1) or an acquisition of plant variety rights in contravention of
that sub-section is void.