SCHEDULE A2 (section 76A)
BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS
3. The following are not patentable inventions –
(f) any variety of animal or plant or any essentially biological process for the production of animals or plants, not being a micro-biological or other technical process or the product of such a process.
4. Inventions which concern plants or animals may be patentable if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety.
11. In this Schedule:
“essentially biological process” means a process for the production of animals and plants which consists entirely of natural phenomena such as crossing and selection;
“microbiological process” means any process involving or performed upon or resulting in microbiological material;
“plant variety” means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, which grouping can be:
a) defined by the expression of the characteristics that results from a given genotype or combination of genotypes; and
(b) distinguished from any other plant grouping by the expression of at least one of the said characteristics; and
(c) considered as a unit with regard to its suitability for being propagated unchanged.