# Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964, Section 10: The Tribunal.

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

(1) There shall be a Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal in relation to which the provisions of Schedule 4 of this Act shall apply.
(2) Subject to this section, section 11 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 (appeals on questions of law) shall apply as if the Tribunal were included among the tribunals mentioned in subsection (1) of that section and, subject to that section, the decisions of the Tribunal shall be final and conclusive.
(3) The Tribunal shall, in addition to their jurisdiction under this Part of this Act, hear and determine any matters agreed to be referred to the Tribunal by any arbitration agreement relating to the infringement of plant breeders’ rights, or to matters which include the infringement of plant breeders’ rights, but subsection (2) of this section shall not apply in relation to any jurisdiction conferred on the Tribunal by this subsection.
(4) The fees payable to the Tribunal for acting under any arbitration agreement shall be such as the Tribunal may determine, and nothing in section 4 of the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 1894 (power to name oversman) . . . shall be taken as applying to the Tribunal.
(5) Regulations may be made by the Ministers under this section as respects any appeal to the Tribunal under this Act, or under regulations made under this Act for all or any of the following purposes, that is—
(a) to provide for determining in which part of Great Britain any appeal is to be heard;
(b) to authorise persons other than the appellant and the Controller or other authority whose decision is appealed against to appear and be heard as parties to any appeal;
(c) to provide for suspending, or authorising or requiring the suspension of, the operation of a decision pending final determination of an appeal against a decision, and
(d) to provide for the publication of notices or the taking of other steps for securing that the persons affected by the suspension of the operation of a decision appealed against will be informed of its suspension.
Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(6) In the application of this section to England and Wales “arbitration agreement” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Arbitration Act 1996.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/14/section/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/plant-varieties-and-seeds-act-1964/section-10
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