Plant Varieties Protection Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · General
66. Rules
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Attorney General may, with the approval of His Majesty the
Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make rules —
for prescribing anything authorised or required by this Act to be prescribed; and
generally for regulating practice and procedure under this
Act.
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Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), rules made under this section may make provision —
as to the manner of making applications and filing other documents and in respect of anything that is to accompany or to be furnished together with any application;
as to the procedure to be followed in connection with any application or request to the Registrar or in connection with any proceedings or other matter before the Registrar, and the rectification of irregularities of procedure;
providing for the examination, testing and treatment of plant varieties to which applications relate;
requiring and regulating the translation of documents and the filing and authentication of any translation;
as to the service of documents;
prescribing time limits for anything required to be done under this Act;
providing for the extension of any time limit prescribed or specified by the Registrar, whether or not it has already expired;
providing for the forfeiture of any priority given in respect of an application;
authorising the preparation, publication, sale and exchange of copies of diagrams, photographs and documents filed with the
Registry, and indexes and abridgments to them;
prescribing the mode of publishing any matters required by this Act to be published;
prescribing the requirements to be met in selecting the denomination of plant varieties, and providing for the approval or rejection by the Registrar of any denomination or the amendment to any denomination; and
prescribing fees and charges for the purposes of this Act.
Terms defined in s 2
denomination
Defined · s 2“denomination” means the distinguishing name or identification for a plant variety;
plant
Defined · s 2“plant” includes all fungi and algae but does not include bacteria, bacteroids, mycoplasmas, viruses, viroids and bacteriophages;
Registrar
Defined · s 2“Registrar” means the Registrar of Plant Varieties referred to in section 5;
Registry
Defined · s 2“Registry” means the Registry of Plant Varieties referred to in section 7;