Ministry of Agriculture
(Department of Agriculture and Cooperation)
Notification
New Delhi, the 7th December, 2006
G.S.R. (E)In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section 95 of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 (53 of 2001), the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority hereby makes, with the approval of the Central Government, the following regulations, namely:
CHAPTER – I
1. Short title and commencement: (1) These regulations may be called the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Regulations, 2006.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions: (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires - (a)
- “Act” means the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001;
- (b)
- “Agreement Country” means the country which makes an agreement with the Republic of India on Intellectual Property Rights or Plant Variety Protection;
- (c)
- “Applicant” means the person who applies to the Authority for registration of plant varieties;
- (d)
- “Form” means a form annexed to the regulations;
- (e)
- “Journal” means the Plant Variety Journal of India;
- (f)
- “Parental Line” means the inbred line of immediate parents or ‘A’ line ‘B’ line and ‘R’ line of hybrids;
- (g)
- “Rules” means Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Rules, 2003; and
- (h)
- “section” means a section of the Act.
- (2)
- All other words and expressions used in these rules and not defined, but defined in the Act, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.
CHAPTER – II Duties and Jurisdiction of the Registrar
3. Duties of the Registrar - (1)
- The Registrar shall discharge the functions under the superintendence and directions of the Registrar General.
- (2)
- The Registrar, on receipt of an application under section 14 for the registration of any variety, shall examine the same unde