Plant Improvement Act, 1976 (Act No. 53 of 1976)

15A. Registrar may enter into certain agreements for obtaining or rendering available of results of certain tests and trials
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The registrar may with the approval of the Minister, which shall be granted with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance and of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, enter into an agreement with the appropriate authority of another country in which it is provided that the registrar—

(a) shall, for the purposes of the consideration by him of an application for the recognition of a variety in terms of this Act, be entitled to obtain the results of tests and trials conducted by that authority in respect of that variety;
(b) shall render available to such authority the results of tests and trials conducted by the registrar in respect of a variety, against payment by the registrar or that authority, as the case may be, of the amount stipulated in the agreement.

 

[Section 15A amended by section 6 of Act No. 17 of 1991]