LawgistThe Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act
70Penalty for applying false denomination, etc
(1) Any person who--
(a) applies any false denomination to a variety; or
(b) indicates the false name of a country or place or false name and address of the breeder of a variety registered under this Act in the course of trading such variety,
shall unless he proves that he acted, without intend to defraud, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to two years, or with fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees, or with both.
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Offences, penalties and procedure
- 68 Prohibition to apply denomination of a registered variety
- 69 Meaning of falsely applying denomination of a registered variety
- 70 Penalty for applying false denomination, etc
- 71 Penalty for selling varieties to which false denomination is applied, etc
- 72 Penalty for falsely representing a variety as registered
- 73 Penalty for subsequent offence
- 74 No offence in certain cases
- 75 Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
- 76 Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused
- 77 Offences by companies
