Plant Breeders’ Rights Act

Marginal note:Acceptance of results of foreign tests and trials

• 24 (1) Where the Commissioner is able to obtain from an appropriate authority in any country such official results of tests and trials with the plant variety referred to in subsection 23(2) as the Commissioner considers acceptable, the Commissioner may rely on those results and the costs incurred in obtaining them pursuant to this subsection shall be paid to the Commissioner by the person to whom the Commissioner is authorized by subsection 23(3) to give directions for payment of such examination fee as may be payable for the purposes of tests and trials with the plant variety.

• Marginal note:Submission to foreign tests and trials

  (2) The Commissioner may submit to the appropriate authority in a country of the Union or an agreement country, in order that any necessary tests and trials may be undertaken in that country with the plant variety in question, anything furnished in support, as required by subsection 9(1), of an application or in compliance with subsection 23(3) and the Commissioner may accept such results of any of the tests and trials as are furnished by that authority.