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1.—(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Plant Breeders' Rights (Miscellaneous Ornamental Plants) Scheme 1995 and shall come into force on 24th March 1995.
(2) In this Scheme “the Act” means the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 (including that Act as extended to Northern Ireland and as extended to the Isle of Man).
2. The Plant Breeders' Rights (Miscellaneous Ornamental Plants) Scheme 1990(1), the Plant Breeders' Rights (Miscellaneous Ornamental Plants) (Variation) Scheme 1990(2), the Plant Breeders' Rights (Miscellaneous Ornamental Plants) (Variation) Scheme 1992(3) and the Plant Breeders' Rights (Miscellaneous Ornamental Plants) (Variation) Scheme 1993(4) are hereby revoked.
3. There are prescribed for the purposes of the grant of plant breeders' rights all plant varieties which conform with the characteristics of cultivated plant varieties of any of the genera or species specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Scheme or of any cultivated varieties which are the product of hybridization between members of any of those genera or species.
4. The period for which plant breeders' rights shall be exercisable in respect of any of the plant varieties referred to in paragraph 3 of this Scheme shall be 20 years.
5. In relation to any of the plant varieties referred to in paragraph 3 of this Scheme, the class of plant varieties prescribed for the purposes of section 5(7) of the Act (which enables classes of plant varieties to be prescribed in connection with the use of names likely to deceive or cause confusion) consists of all plant varieties of the genera or species specified in column 2 of the said Schedule opposite the genus or species to which that plant variety belongs.
6. In relation to any of the plant varieties referred to in paragraph 3 of this Scheme the period prescribed for the purposes of section 7(2) of the Act (which enables a provision to be made whereby a compulsory licence granted by the Controller as respects a plant variety of a species or group specified in a Scheme shall not have effect for a prescribed period after the grant of rights in that plant variety) shall be 3 years.
7. Plant breeders' rights exercisable in respect of any of the plant varieties of the genus or species Kalanchoe Adans. shall include the exclusive right to produce or propagate and to authorise others to produce or propagate that plant variety for the purpose of selling cut blooms of that variety.
Howe
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
13th February 1995
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
14th February 1995
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
14th February 1995
Denton of Wakefield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office
28th February 1995
Michael Howard
Secretary of State for the Home
Department (being the Secretary of State concerned with matters relating to the Isle of Man)
14th February 1995
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