Section 15 Interpretation of Part I.

United Kingdom

(1)

References in this Part of this Act to reproductive material are references to reproductive material of plant varieties, and include references—

(a)

to seeds for sowing,

(b)

to seed potatoes and other vegetative propagating material,

(c)

to whole plants, as well as parts of plants, where whole plants may be used as reproductive material, and

(d)

to F1plants or parts of plants of any ornamental variety when plants or parts of plants of that variety are used commercially as propagating material in the production of ornamental plants and cut flowers.

F2(1A)

References in this Part of this Act to offering or exposing for sale plants or material of any description include references to publishing, or causing to be published, any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that the advertiser has plants or material of that description in his possession for the purpose of sale.

(2)

References in this Part of this Act to an applicant for plant breeders’ rights, or to the holder of plant breeders’ rights, include, where the context allows, references to his predecessors in title or his successors in title.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words substituted by Plant Varieties Act 1983 (c. 17, SIF 2:9), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 4(1)
F2: S. 15(1A) inserted by Plant Varieties Act 1983 (c. 17, SIF 2:9), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 4(2)

Notes on Part I

Textual amendments

F1: Pt. I repealed (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 52, Sch. 4; S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2