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

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To provide for—

 

● the registration of certain types of business relating to plants and propagating material intended for cultivation and sale and the registration of premises on or from which that business is conducted;
● quality standards for plants and propagating material intended for cultivation and sale and conditions of sale of plants and propagating material;
● a system for national listing of plant varieties;
● the evaluation of plant varieties in order to ensure value if there is doubt in respect of the value for cultivation and use of plant varieties intended for cultivation and sale;
● import and export control of plants and propagating material; and
● a system for different types of schemes for plants and propagating material; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

 

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—