Plant Variety Rights Amendment Regulations 2001: revoked, on 24 January 2023, pursuant to section 158(2)(a) of the Plant Variety Rights Act 2022 (2022 No 61).

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 have been made in this consolidation. See the notes at the end of this consolidation for further details.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.

Pursuant to section 38 of the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Quantities of seed to be provided with applications
4	New Schedule 1 substituted
	Schedule New Schedule 1 substituted in principal regulations
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Notes

1 Title

(1)

These regulations are the Plant Variety Rights Amendment Regulations 2001.

(2)

In these regulations, the Plant Variety Rights Regulations 1988¹ are called “the principal regulations”.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 1 January 2002.

3 Quantities of seed to be provided with applications

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking subclause (1), and substituting the following subclause:

(1)

An application for a variety of a kind of plant described in column 1 of the First Schedule must be accompanied by the quantity of seed specified (opposite the description) in column 2 of the First Schedule, together with the quantity, if any, of seed ears specified (opposite the description) in column 3 of the First Schedule.

4 New Schedule 1 substituted

The principal regulations are amended by revoking Schedule 1, and substituting Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule of these regulations.

Schedule New Schedule 1 substituted in principal regulations

r 4

First Schedule Quantities of seed to accompany applications

r 5(1)

Description of variety		Seed (g)	Seed in ears (ears)
Arable crops and vegetables—
	peas	3000	—
	beans, lentils, lupins, and maize	2000	—
	barley, oats, ryecorn, triticale, and wheat	2000	100
	linseed and sunflower	1000	—
	beets	500	—
	asparagus, borage, and cucurbits	100	—
	allium, amaranthus, capsicum, chicory, forage brassicas, phacelia, and radish	50	—
	carrot, lettuce, brassicas (other than forage brassicas), parsnip, and tomato	30	—
	evening primrose	10	—
Grasses—
	brome and ryegrass	500	—
	cocksfoot, crested dogstail, fescue, koeleria, and paspalum	50	—
	bents, phalaris, and yorkshire fog	10	—
Other pasture plants—
	serradella and sulla	100	—
	lotus, lucerne, plantain, and red clover	50	—
	yarrow	25	—
	white clover	10	—

Marie Shroff,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 1 January 2002, reduce the quantity of seed to be provided for testing by the Plant Variety Rights Office, as fewer seeds are required for testing than previously prescribed.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 29 November 2001.

Consolidation notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Plant Variety Rights Amendment Regulations 2001 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.

2 About this consolidation

This consolidation is not an official version of the legislation under section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019.

3 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Plant Variety Rights Act 2022 (2022 No 61): section 158(2)(a)

¹SR 1988/101

Plant Variety Rights Amendment Regulations 2001