2104
No. 53
Amendment of
,section 8 of
'Cap.326.
Insertion of new
section 8A in Cap.
326.
Seeds and Plant Varieties (Amendment)
2012
6. Section 8 of the principal Act is amended in
subsection (4) by deleting the words "agro ecological value"
and substituting therefor the words "value for cultivation and
Use".
7. The principal Act is amended by inserting the
following new section immediately after section 8—
Maintenance of national
plant variety list.
8A. (1) The Service shall cause the
preparation of a national plant varieties list
which shall comprise the names of plant
varieties released for commercialization.
(2) The Service shall maintain and
update the national varieties list and shall
cause its publication in the Gazette and in
such other manner as to afford access to it
by members of the public.
Amendment of
section 9 of Cap.
326.
8. Section 9 of the principal Act is amended—
(a) by deleting subsection (1) and substituting therefor
the following new subsection—
(1) The Minister may, in consultation with
representatives of such organizations as he deems
to have a substantial relevant interest in the matter
to be regulated, make regulations for the carrying
out of national performance trials, and may by
order apply such regulations to any class of plant
varieties within the national varieties list and to
any new varieties in that class.
(b) by deleting subsection (2) and substituting
therefor the following new subsection—
(2) For the purposes of this section, a plant
shall be deemed to be a new plant variety if it was
not on the national variety list on the date of the
coming into operation of an order under
subsection (1), unless it had been exempted under
subsection (3).