General nature of PBR
11 General nature of PBR
Subject to sections 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23, PBR in a plant variety is the exclusive right, subject to this Act, to do, or to license another person to do, the following acts in relation to propagating material of the variety:
produce or reproduce the material;
condition the material for the purpose of propagation;
offer the material for sale;
sell the material;
import the material;
export the material;
stock the material for the purposes described in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f).
In certain circumstances, the right conferred by this section extends to essentially derived varieties (see section 12), certain dependent plant varieties (see section 13), harvested material (see section 14) and products obtained from harvested material (see section 15).
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