Plant Breeder s Rights

[No.18of2007

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GOVERNMENT OF ZA.\1BIA

ACT
No.18 of 2007
Date of Assent: 30th August, 2007

An Act to provide for the protection of plant breeder's rights;
the registration of plant varieties; and for matters
connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
[31st August, 2007
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.
Enactment

PART I
I'RaIMINARY

1. This Act may be cited as the Plant Breeder's Rights Act,
2007.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"Appeals Board" means the Appeals Board established under
section fifty-five;
" assignee" in relation to a variety, means a person who has
derived a title to the variety, directly or indirectly, from a
breeder or owner thereof, or the legal representative of
that person;
" breeder" in relation to a protected variety means(a) the person who or organisation which has
bred,discovered and developed the plant variety;
(b) the employer of the personreferred to in paragraph
(a) if that person is an employee whose duties are
such that the variety was bred, discovered and
developed in the performance of the employee's
duties; or

(c)

the successor in title of the person referred to in
paragraph (a) or the employer referred to in
paragraph (b);

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