The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act `2001
An Act to provide for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders and to encourage the development of new varieties of plants.
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority
Registry
Application for registration
Registration of essentially derived variety
DURATION AND EFFECT OF REGISTRATION AND BENEFIT SHARING
- 24Issue of certificate of registration
- 25Publication of list of varieties
- 26Determination of benefit sharing by Authority
- 27Breeder to deposit seeds or propagating material
- 28Registration to confer right
- 29Exclusion of certain varieties
- 30Researcher’s rights
- 31Special provisions relating to application for registration from citizens of convention countries
- 32Provisions as to reciprocity
SURRENDER AND REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE AND RECTIFICATION AND CORRECTION OF REGISTER
- 33Surrender of certificate of registration
- 34Revocation of protection on certain grounds
- 35Payment of annual fees and forfeiture of registration in default thereof
- 36Power to cancel or change registration and to rectify the Register
- 37Correction of Register
- 38Alteration of denomination of a registered variety
FARMERS’ RIGHTS
COMPULSORY LICENCE
- 47Power of Authority to make order for compulsory licence in certain circumstances
- 48When requirement of public deemed to have not been satisfied
- 49Adjournment of application for grant of compulsory licence
- 50Duration of compulsory licence
- 51Authority to settle terms and conditions of licence
- 52Revocation of compulsory licence
- 53Modification of compulsory licence
PLANT VARIETIES PROTECTION APPELLANTE TRIBUNAL
FINANCE, ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT
Infringement
Offences, penalties and procedure
- 68Prohibition to apply denomination of a registered variety
- 69Meaning of falsely applying denomination of a registered variety
- 70Penalty for applying false denomination, etc
- 71Penalty for selling varieties to which false denomination is applied, etc
- 72Penalty for falsely representing a variety as registered
- 73Penalty for subsequent offence
- 74No offence in certain cases
- 75Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
- 76Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused
- 77Offences by companies
MISCELLANEOUS
- 78Protection of security of India
- 79Implied warranty on sale of registered variety, etc
- 80Death of party to a proceeding
- 81Right of registered agent and the registered licensee to institute suit
- 82Evidence of entry in Register, etc., and things done by the Authority and the Registrar
- 83Authority, Registrar and other officers not compellable to production of Register, etc
- 84Document open to public inspection
- 85Report of Authority to be placed before Parliament
- 86Government to be bound
- 87Proceedings before Authority or Registrar
- 88Protection of action taken in good faith
- 89Bar of jurisdiction
- 90Members and staff of Authority, etc., to be public servants
- 91Exemption from tax on wealth and income
- 92Act to have overriding effect
- 93Power of Central Government to give directions
- 94Power to remove difficulties
- 95Power to make regulations
- 96Power of Central Government to make rules
- 97Rules, regulations and schemes to be laid before Parliament