The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Amendment of the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990

2.—(1) The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Fees) Regulations 1990(1) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3 (payment of fees)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) for the words “Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (2) below”;

(ii) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted;

(iii) for sub-paragraph (d) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(d) a renewal fee, being the new fee set out in the second column of Part III of the Schedule in relation to a year of retention of a plant variety in a National List opposite the reference in the first column of the said Part III to the plant variety of the kind retained in the National List, such fee being payable, subject to regulation 4(3) below, before the beginning of the year of retention in the National List;”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (e) “Part IV” shall be substituted for “Part V” in each of the three places in which it occurs;

(b) paragraph (3) shall be omitted.

(3) In paragraph (2) of regulation 4 (renewal fees) “Part III” shall be substituted for “Part IV”.

(4) For the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1990/617.