# Plant Varieties Act 1983 (repealed 8.5.1998), Section 2: Plant breeders’ rights in special cases.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For subparagraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the 1964 Act (sale of cut blooms, fruit etc.) there shall be substituted the following subparagraph—
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1 (1) If it appears to the Ministers that, in the case of any species or group of plant varieties, plant breeders will not receive adequate renumeration unless there is made such provision as is authorised by this paragraph, and that such provision will be of substantial benefit to plant breeders, they may by a scheme under Part I of this Act provide that, as respects any plant variety of the species or group prescribed by the scheme, plant breeders’ rights shall include the exclusive right to do, and to authorise others to do, as follows—
(a) to produce or propagate the variety in Great Britain for the purpose of selling such parts or products of the variety as may be prescribed by the scheme; and
(b) to sell or offer or expose for sale in Great Britain, so far as they are obtained from plants produced or propagated outside Great Britain, such parts or products of the variety as may be so prescribed.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/17/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-act-1983-repealed-851998/section-2
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