Seeds and plant Varieties Act
Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Irrigation
This is a parliamentary Act to confer power to regulate transactions in seeds, including provision for the testing and certification of seeds, for the establishment of an index of names of plant varieties; to empower the imposition of restriction on the introduction of new varieties, to control the importation of seeds, to authorize measures to prevent injurious cross-pollination, to provide for the grant of proprietary rights to persons breeding or discovering new varieties, to establish a tribunal to hear appeals and other proceedings and for connected purposes.
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Seeds and plant Varieties Act Current Version
January 2022
This is a parliamentary Act to confer power to regulate transactions in seeds, including provision for the testing and certification of seeds, for the establishment of an index of names of plant varieties; to empower the imposition of restriction on the introduction of new varieties, to control the importation of seeds, to authorize measures to prevent injurious cross-pollination, to provide for the grant of proprietary rights to persons breeding or discovering new varieties, to establish a tribunal to hear appeals and other proceedings and for connected purposes.
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