NZ025: Plant Variety, Regulations (Amendment No. 1), 24/07/1989, No. 227

THE PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS REGULATIONS 1988,
AMENDMENT NO. 1

PAUL REEVES, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At Wellington this 24th day of July 1989

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Pursuant to section 38 of the Plant Variety Rights Act 1988, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following regulations.

REGULATIONS

1. Title and commencement-

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Plant Variety Rights Regulations 1988, Amendment No. 1, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Plant Variety Rights Regulations 1988* (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations).

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

2. Quantities of seed to be provided with applications-

(1) Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by revoking subclause (1), and substituting the following subclause:

"(1) An application for a variety of a kind described in the first column of the First Schedule to these regulations must be accompanied by the quantity of seed specified (opposite the description) in the second column of the schedule or, if no quantity is specified there,-

"(a) The quantity, if any, of nucleus seed specified (opposite the description) in the third column of the schedule; and

"(b) The quantity, if any, of seed of a generation of plants-

"(i) Grown from nucleus seed; or

"(ii) Descended from plants grown from nucleus seed,- specified (opposite the description) in the fourth column of the schedule."

(2) The principal regulations are hereby consequentially amended by revoking the First Schedule, and substituting the schedule set out in the Schedule to these regulations.

Reg. 2(2)

SCHEDULE
NEW FIRST SCHEDULE TO PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Reg. 5(1)

"FIRST SCHEDULE
QUANTITIES OF SEED TO ACCOMPANY APPLICATIONS

Description of Variety	Seed of any Generation g	Nucleus Seed g	Lower Generation Seed g
Cereals	125	-	-
Peas	750	-	-
Tick and Broad Beans	1000	-	-
Lentils	150	-	-
Linseed	20	-	-
Brassicas	10	-	-
Lucerne	5	-	-
Clover	5	-	-
Ryegrass	-	50	500
Cocksfoot	10	-	-
Fescue	10	-	-
Browntop	5	-	-."

MARIE SHROFF,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force 28 days after notification in the Gazette, increase the quantity of seed required to be supplied with an application for a grant of plant variety rights in respect of any variety of ryegrass.

Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936.

Date of notification in Gazette: 27 July 1989.

These regulations are administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Wellington, New Zealand: Printed under the authority of the
New Zealand Gouvernment by V. R Ward, Government Printer-1989

*S.R. 1988/101

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