If an application for the recognition of a variety of a particular kind of plant has been lodged prior to the commencement of a particular recognised growing season for that variety, the tests and trials with such variety in terms of section 18 of the Act shall commence during that growing season only if the applicable examination fee, plant and propagating material referred to in regulation 17 have respectively been paid and furnished on or before the date determined by the registrar for the kind of plant concerned.

[Regulation 18 substituted by Notice No. R. 2496 of 9 December 1988]