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Plant Improvement Act, 2018 (Act No. 11 of 2018)

Chapter 6 : Application for National Listing

27. Varieties eligible for national listing

 

A variety must be listed if it is—

 

(a) clearly distinguishable from any other variety of the same kind of plant which has been included in the national varietal list;

 

(b) sufficiently uniform with regard to the characteristics thereof, subject to the variation that may be expected from the particular features of the propagation of that variety;

 

(c) stable in that the characteristics of the variety remain unchanged after repeated propagation or, in the case of a particular cycle of propagation, at the end of each such cycle; and

 

(d) identified by a denomination which complies with the provisions of section 33.