Plant Varieties Protection Act, 2019 (No. 6 of 2019 Law).

An act to establish a plant variety protection authority, to make provisions for the protection of plant varieties, registration, protection of the rights of breeders and farmers, and other related matters. As soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, the Government shall, by notification in the official Gazette, establish an Authority to be called the ‘Plant Varieties Protection Authority’. Powers and functions of the Authority shall be as follows, namely:— (a) to identify, publish and circulate the genus and species of plant; (b) to register plant varieties for protection, issue registration certificate and cancel the registration for contravening any provision of this Act, or rules or regulations made thereunder; (c) to determine the evaluation procedure of the application for the protection of plant varieties; (d) to exchange the information in respect of the protection of plant varieties and to establish the regional and international cooperation for evaluation of plant varieties in more advanced way; (e) to determine the rights of breeders and validity of such rights and limit or, as the case may be, suspend or cancel the rights or to determine the procedure of similar matters and implement the same, etc.