Plant Variety Rights Amendment Act (No. 52 of 1994)
Made 1994 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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About this law
- Language
- English
- Kind
- Act
- Organisation
- European Union
- Country
- New Zealand
- Subjects
- Cultivated plants
- Keywords
- plant production, breeders' rights, plant variety, intellectual property rights
- Categories
- agriculture
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Plant Variety Rights Amendment Act 1994 052 Commenced: 1 Jul 1994 Index Title 1 Short Title 2 Interpretation An Act to amend the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987 BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: 1. Short Title---This Act may be cited as the Plant Variety Rights Amendment Act 1994, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act). 2. Interpretation---(1) Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the definition of the term ``plant'', and substituting the following definition: `` `Plant' ``(a) Includes a fungus; but ``(b) Does not include an alga or a bacterium:''. (2) Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by omitting the definition of the term ``variety'', and substituting the following definition: `` `Variety' means a cultivar, or cultivated variety, of a plant, and includes any clone, hybrid, stock, or line, of a plant; but does not include a botanical variety of a plant.'' (3) Section 3 of, and the Schedule to, the principal Act are hereby consequentially repealed.