2 Conditions for grant of rights.U.K.
(1)The conditions laid down in this section must be fulfilled as respects an applicant for plant breeders’ rights and the plant variety to which the application relates.
(2)The applicant must be the person who bred or discovered the variety, or his successor in title, and the provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect as respects priorities between two or more persons who have independently bred or discovered a variety.
(3)The variety must conform to the rules in Part II of Schedule 2 to this Act.
(4)References in this section and Schedule 2 to this Act to the discovery of a plant variety are references to the discovery of a plant variety, whether growing in the wild or occurring as a genetic variant, whether artificially induced or not.