Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Designated Countries and Offices) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Regulations, 2015 (G.S.I. No. 81 of 2015)

GREFFE R O YA L C O U R T 2 2 0CT 20t'J (c, GUERNSEY GUERNSEY STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 2015 NO. ยงal The Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Designated Countries and Offices) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Regulations, 2015 Made Coming into operation Laid before the States 22ndOctober, 2015 23rdOctober, 2015 , 2015 THE COMMERCE AND EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 4 and 43 of the Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007a and all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: Designated countries. 1. For the purposes of section 4(l)(c) of the Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007 ("the Ordinance"), the designated countries are those countries which are members for the time being of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants established by the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, adopted in Paris in 1961 and revised in 1972, 1978 and 1991. Designated offices. 2. For the purposes of section 4(2) of the Ordinance, the designated offices are (a) the Plant Variety Rights Office, a Ordinance No. IV of 2005; as amended by Order in Council No. XIV of 2012. 1 (b) the Community Plant Variety Office. Interpretation. 3. (l) In these Regulations, unless the context requires otherwise "enactment" means any Law, Ordinance or subordinate legislation, "the Ordinance" means the Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007, "subordinate Iegislation" means any regulation, rule, order, rule of court, resolution, scheme, byelaw or other instrument made under any enactment and having Iegislative effect, and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Intellectual Property (Enabling Provisions) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2004 and in the Ordinance. (2) The Interpretation (Guernsey) Law, 1948c applies to the interpretation of these Regulations. (3) Any reference in these Regulations to an enactment is a reference thereto as from time to time amended, re-enacted (with or without modification), extended or applied. Cita?€ion and commencement. 4. These Regulations may be cited as the Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Designated Countries and Offices) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Regulations, 2015 and shall come into force on the 23rd October, 2015. b Order in Council No. XIV of 2004; as amended by Ordinance No. XXXIII of 2003 and No. XX of 2015. c Ordres ell Conseil Vol. XIII, p. 355.yPa 2 Dated this 22nd day of ;2015 DEPUTY A.H. BROUARD Deputy Minister of the States Commerce and Employment Department For and on behalf of the Department EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations designate, for the purposes of section 4 of the Registered Plant Breeders' Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007, the countries and offices designated as countries or offices within which a plant breeders' right must be registered before it can be registered in the Register of Plant Breeders' Rights in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. These Regulations come into force on the 23rd day of October, 2015. 3