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(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Plant Breeders' Rights (Miscellaneous Ornamental Plants) Scheme 1990 and shall come into force on 28th August 1990.
(2) In this Scheme “the Act” means the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964.
2 
There are prescribed for the purposes of the grant of plant breeders' rights all plant varieties which conform with the characteristics of cultivated plant varieties of any of the genera or species specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Scheme or of any cultivated varieties which are the product of hybridization between members of any of those genera or species.
3 
The period for which plant breeders' rights shall be exercisable in respect of any of the plant varieties referred to in paragraph 2 of this Scheme shall be 20 years.
4 
In relation to any of the plant varieties referred to in paragraph 2 of this Scheme, the class of plant varieties prescribed for the purposes of section 5(7) of the Act (which enables classes of plant varieties to be prescribed in connection with the use of names likely to deceive or cause confusion) consists of all plant varieties of the genera or species specified in column 2 of the said Schedule.
5 
In relation to any of the plant varieties referred to in paragraph 2 of this Scheme the period prescribed for the purposes of section 7(2) of the Act (which enables a provision to be made whereby a compulsory licence granted by the Controller as respects a plant variety of a species or group specified in a scheme shall not have effect for a prescribed period after the grant of rights in that plant variety) shall be 3 years.
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Plant breeders' rights exercisable in respect of any of the plant varieties of the genus or species Kalanchoe Adans. shall include the exclusive right to produce or propagate and to authorise others to produce or propagate that plant variety for the purpose of selling cut blooms of that variety.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 23rd July 1990.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sanderson of Bowden Minister of State, Scottish Office
20thJuly 1990David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
23rd July 1990Peter Brooke
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
30thJuly 1990David Waddington
Secretary of State for the Home
Department (being the Secretary of State concerned with matters relating to the Isle of Man)
Home Office
27th July 1990
SCHEDULE
Paragraphs 2 and 4


Column 1 Column 2
Genera or species Class of plant varieties prescribed for the purposes of section 5(7)
Euphorbia Milii Euphorbia Milii
Impatiens hawkeri Bull (including I. Linearifolia Warb.) Impatiens
Kalanchoe Adans. Kalanchoe
Scaevola Aemula Scaevola Aemula