Plant Breeders' Rights Act, 2018 (Act No. 12 of 2018)

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise indicates, regulations means the regulations made in terms of section 54 of the Plant Breeders' Rights Act, 2018 (Act No. 12 of 2018), published under Government Notice No. R. 511 of 29 March 2019; and

"Director-General"

means the Director-General of the Department responsible or Agriculture;

"DUS test"

means Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability test;

"Household consumption"

includes own use of non-edible agricultural products;

"section"

means a section of the Act;

"special edition"

means an edition of the Plant Variety Journal published annually, with a list of valid plant breeders' rights as at the end of that particular year;

"the Act"

means the Plant Breeders' Rights Act, 2018 (Act No. 12 of 2018);

"UPOV"

meand the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants;

"UPOV code"

means the abbreviation of the scientific name of a kind of plant in accordance with the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) system;

"withdrawal of application"

means voluntary withdrawal of an application by the applicant or agent whilst the application is still under consideration and before a decision could be made on the application.