Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00537:section:44:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00537
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 44 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 102170–103634

applicant, or such longer period as the Registrar considers to be reasonable in the circumstances, to provide an answer to the objection.
 (7) A quantity of propagating material of a plant variety that is lodged with a genetic resource centre must be sufficient to enable that variety to be kept in existence if there were no other propagating material of plants of that variety.
 (8) The delivery and storage of propagating material of a plant variety does not affect the ownership of the material but the material must not be dealt with otherwise than for the purposes of this Act.
 (9) The propagating material of a plant stored at a genetic resource centre may be used by the Registrar for the purposes of this Act, including the purposes of section 19.
 (10) PBR is granted to a person by the issue to that person by the Registrar of a certificate in an approved form, signed by the Registrar, containing such particulars of the plant variety concerned as the Registrar considers appropriate.
 (11) If the PBR is granted to persons who make a joint application for the right, the right is to be granted to those persons jointly.
 (12) If the Registrar refuses to grant PBR in a plant variety, the Registrar must, within 30 days of so refusing, notify the applicant:
 (a) of the refusal; and
 (b) of the reasons for the refusal.
Note: A decision under this section to grant, or refuse to grant, PBR in a plant variety is reviewable by the ART under section 77.