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Plant Improvement Act, 2018 (Act No. 11 of 2018)

Chapter 3 : Registration of Business and Premises

24. National varietal list

 

(1) The Registrar must keep and publish a list of such specific varieties or all varieties of such kinds of plants as may be prescribed.

 

(2) In cases where specific varieties are listed, the national varietal list must, in respect of a variety, contain the denomination
(a) of a variety approved in terms of section 37;
(b) by which a variety is generally known on the date when the kind of plant to which the variety belongs, has been declared as a kind of plant in terms of section 2, if an application has been submitted in terms of section 28 and the variety complies with the requirements contemplated in section 27.

 

(3) If a variety is known by a synonym approved by the breeder of the variety or a trademark, the Registrar may enter these details in the varietal list in addition to the approved denomination.

 

(4) The Registrar may enter in the varietal list any other particulars regarding a variety referred to in subsection (1) that the Registrar deems necessary.

 

(5) The varietal list kept in terms of section 15 of the Plant Improvement Act, 1976 (Act No. 53 of 1976), must be incorporated in and must form part of the list kept under this section, and any document, information or other proof furnished to the registrar in terms of that Act must be regarded as having been furnished to the Registrar under the corresponding provision of this Act.