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Plant Breeder Rights
[No. 18 vf2007 269
PART VII
GENERAL
55. (1) A person who(a) makes a false entry in the Register or causes a false
entry to be made in the Register;
(b) produces, tenders or causes to be produced or tendered
as evidence any false entry or any false copy purporting
to be an entry in the Register;
(c) provides false, misleading or deceptive information to
secure a licence or registration under this Act;
(d) for the purpose of obtaining, whether for that person or
another person, the registration of the plant breeder's
rights or the issuance of a licence, makes a false
declaration or statement which the person knows to be
false in any material particular or does not believe to
be true or knowingly makes use of a declaration,
statement or document containing the same; or
(e) willfully interferes with, obstructs or hinders the Registrar
or any officer of the Institute in the discharge of the
Registrar's or officer's duties under this Act;
commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not
exceeding forty thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding one year, or to both.
(2)
A person who(aJ in the sale of propagating material for the purpose of
propagation or multiplication, uses a denomination which
is not registered or that is different from the denomination
registered under this Act;
(b) uses the registered denomination of another variety of
the same kind of plant or uses a denomination which
corresponds so closely to a registered denomination in a
manner that is misleading in a material particular; or
(c) holds out to be the holder of any plant breeder's rights or
a licence issued under this Act;
commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not
exceeding one hundred and ten thousand penalty units or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or to both.
Offences and
penalties