Adult Basic Education and Training Act, 2000
R 385
Plant Breeders' Rights Act, 2018 (Act No. 12 of 2018)Chapter 1 : Registrar and Register of Plant Breeders' Rights6. Inspection of documents submitted in connection with an application for plant breeders' right |
| (1) | Any person may inspect any document submitted in connection with an application for a plant breeder’s right at any reasonable time and upon payment of a prescribed fee. |
| (2) | The Registrar must furnish a person contemplated in subsection (1), on payment of a prescribed fee, with a copy of the document contemplated in that subsection within seven days. |
| (3) | Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) but subject to subsection (4), a person may not— |
| (a) | inspect that part of the document in question that contains information in respect of the name of each variety used in the breeding program and in respect of the manner in which the variety was bred; |
| (b) | be furnished with a copy of the part of the document referred to in paragraph (a); or |
| (c) | inspect, or be furnished with a copy of, any other prescribed confidential information. |
| (4) | Subsection (3) does not apply to— |
| (a) | the applicant; |
| (b) | the applicant’s authorised agent; or |
| (c) | any other person who has to inspect that part of the documentation or information contemplated in subsection (3) in the course of the performance of any function entrusted to him or her in terms of this Act. |
