NATIONAL CROP VARIETIES AND LIVESTOCK BREEDS
(REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1.
Establishment of the National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds Register.
2.
Appointment of Registrar, etc.
3.
Alteration of Register.
4.
Custody of Register.
5.
Establishment of the National Crop Varieties Livestock Breed Registration and Release
Committee.
6.
Functions of the Committee.
7.
Evidence.
8.
Offences and penalties.
9.
Regulations.
10.
Interpretation.
11.
Short title.
SCHEDULE
An Act to introduce a register for the certification, registration and release of
national crop varieties and livestock breeds and other matters related thereto.
[1987 No. 33.]
[14th October, 1987]
[Commencement.]
1.
Establishment of the National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds Register
There is hereby established for the purposes of this Act a register to be known as the
National Register for Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds (in this Act referred to as "the
National Register") in which shall be inscribed in a permanent form the names of old and
new crop varieties and livestock breeds in Nigeria.
2.
Appointment of Registrar, etc.
(1) There shall for the purposes of this Act be appointed a Registrar and such other
grades of assistants as the Registrar may consider necessary for the enforcement of the
provisions of this Act.
(2) The Registrar referred to in subsection (1) of this section, shall be the head of the
Genetic Resources Unit in the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology or his representative.
(3) The assistants shall each be appointed from the staff of the Federal Ministry of
Science and Technology.