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Seeds and Plant Varieties (Plant Breeder's Rights) (Pulses Scheme) Regulations, 2001 (L.N. No. 78 of 2001).

Country
Type of law
Regulation
Date of original text
Source


Abstract
There is hereby made a scheme that shall apply to all plant varieties of pulses that conform with the characteristics of cultivated plant of any of the genera or species specified in the first column of the First Schedule to these Regulations. The period for which plant breeder's rights are exercisable in respect of those plant varieties is indicated in the second column of the Schedule. The classes of plants prescribed for purposes of section 21 of the Seeds and Plant Varieties Act are those listed in regulation 5 and the Second Schedule. Column 3 specifies the period of years prescribed for purposes of section 23 (4) of the Act (compulsory licensing). A person who infringes the plant breeder's right in the registered name of a variety of pulses covered by the scheme here introduced commits and offence. (7 regulations completed by 2 Schedules)
Date of consolidation/reprint
Notes
Reprinted edition of 2012 of L.N. 78/2001
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Special Issue of the Kenya Gazette, Supplement No. 35 (Legislative Supplement No. 22), 18 May 2001, pp. 353-354.
Source language

English

Legislation status
in force
Legislation Amendment
No