Plant Improvement Act, 2018 (Act No. 11 of 2018)Chapter 2 : Registrar and Administration8. Inspection of documents submitted in connection with applications for national listing |
| (1) | Any person may inspect any document submitted in connection with an application for national listing at a reasonable time and upon payment of a prescribed fee. |
| (2) | The Registrar must furnish the person contemplated in subsection (1), upon payment of a prescribed fee, with a copy of the document contemplated in that subsection within seven days. |
| (3) | Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) but subject to subsection (4), a person may not— |
| (a) | inspect that part of the document in question that contains information in respect of the name of each variety used in the breeding program and in respect of the manner in which the variety was bred; |
| (b) | be furnished with a copy of the part of the document referred to in paragraph (a); or |
| (c) | inspect, or be furnished with a copy of, any other prescribed confidential information. |
| (4) | Subsection (3) does not apply to— |
| (a) | the applicant; |
| (b) | the applicant’s authorised agent; or |
| (c) | any other person who has to inspect that part of the document or information contemplated in subsection (3) in the course of the performance of a function entrusted to him or her in terms of this Act. |