Act means the

Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

.

means:

(a) the Act of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, done at Geneva on 23 October 1978, as that Act is in force for Australia from time to time; or

(b) the 1991 Act of the Convention; or

has a meaning affected by subsection (2).

means the Plant Breeders Rights established by section 63.

in relation to an application, means the person currently shown in the application as the person making the application.

means an under section 24 for PBR in a plant variety to which this Act extends.

means a form approved by the Secretary for the purposes of the provision in which the expression appears.

means an order made under section 353.

has the meaning given by subsection 365(1).

Note: An area may be determined to be a biosecurity response zone under Part 5 of Chapter 6 during a biosecurity emergency period (see section 465).

means a determination made under subsection 365(1).

, in relation to a new plant variety, means:

(a) subject to paragraph (c), if the variety was bred by one person onlythe person; or

means the day on which, in accordance with section 2, this Act commences.

has the meaning given by subsection 41B(4).

, in relation to propagating material of a plant variety, means:

(a) cleaning, coating, sorting, packaging or grading of the material; or

(b) any other similar treatment;

means a State, or an intergovernmental organisation, that is a party to the Convention.

means the International for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, a copy of the English text of which is set out in the Schedule.

means the Federal of Australia.

, in relation to another plant variety in which a person holds PBR in Australia, means a plant variety over which PBR in the other plant variety extends under section 13.

, in relation to a plant variety, means heritable traits that are determined by the expression of one or more genes, or other heritable determinants, that contribute to the principal features, performance or value of the variety.

, in relation to a plant variety, has the meaning given by section 4.