Section 34 The gazette.C1

United Kingdom

(1)

The Ministers shall from time to time publish a gazette (in this Act referred to as “the gazette”), and shall use the gazette as one of the means of publishing notice of matters to be published under this Act F1or Part I of the Plant Varieties Act 1997.

(2)

It shall be no defence in civil or criminal proceedings to show that at any time a person did not know of an entry in the register under F2section 18 of the Plant Varieties Act 1997, . . . F3, if before that time notice of that entry . . . had been published in the gazette.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 34(1) inserted (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 51(1)(a); S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2
F2: Words in s. 34(2) substituted (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 51(1)(b); S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2
F3: Words repealed by European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), s. 4, Sch. 3 Pt. III

Modifications

C1: Ss. 34-36 extended (with modifications) (1.8.2016) by The Plant Varieties and Seeds (Isle of Man) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/758), arts. 1, 2(2)(c), Sch. 1

Notes on Part IV

Modifications

C1: Pt. IV (except s. 40) extended (N.I.) by S.I. 1964/1574, art. 1, Sch.
C2: Provisions of Pt. I and of Pt. IV in its application to the said Pt. I extend to the Isle of Man subject to specified exceptions, adaptations and modifications by S.I. 1969/1829 art. 2, Sch.