The Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made: 8th April 1999

Laid before Parliament: 8th April 1999

Coming into force: 30th April 1999

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 29(1) and (2) and 48(1) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997¹, after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of persons likely to be substantially affected, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 30th April 1999.

Amendment of the Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1998

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For Schedule 1 to the Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1998² there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS (FEES) REGULATIONS 1998

Signed

Jeff Rooker — Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 1st April 1999

Sewel — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 1st April 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 7th April 1999

Paul Murphy — Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office — 8th April 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Breeders' Rights (Fees) Regulations 1998 so as to prescribe revised fees in respect of various matters relating to plant breeders' rights arising under the Plant Varieties Act 1997 or the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1998 (regulation 2 and the Schedule).

The matters in respect of which the revised fees are prescribed are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations and the fees which were chargeable before these Regulations come into force are printed in italics beside the revised fees.

Application, test and renewal fees (other than renewal fees for roses which remain unchanged) have been increased by 5 per cent., rounded to the nearest £5. Grant and other fees in Part IV of the Schedule have been similarly increased apart from the fees for items 3, 6, 7 and 8 which remain unchanged.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, White House Lane, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LF.

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