S.I. No. 491/2000 - Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Act, 1998 (Section 19(2)) Order, 2000.

1. This Order may be cited as the Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Act, 1998 (Section 19(2)) Order, 2000.

2. The farm saved seed exemption applies to the variety of any plant genus or species specified in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Variety

Genus or Species

(1)

(2)

Fodder Plants

Cicer arietinum L. — Chickpea milkvetch

Lupinus luteus L. — Yellow lupin

Medicago sativa L. Lucerne

Pisum sativum L. (partim) — Field pea

Trifolium alexandrinum L. — Berseem/Egyptian clover

Trifolium resupinatum L. — Persian clover

Vicia faba — Field bean

Vicia sativa L. — Common vetch

Cereals

Avena sativa — Oats

Hordeum vulgare L. — Barley

Oryza sativa L. — Rice

Phalaris canariensis L. — Canary grass

Secale cereale L. — Rye

X Triticisecale Wittm. — Triticale

Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori et Paol. — Wheat

Triticum durum Desf. — Durum wheat

Triticum spelta L. — Spelt wheat

Potatoes

Solanum Tuberosum — Potatoes

Oil and Fibre Plants

Brassica napus L. (partim) — Swede rape

Brassica rapa L. (partim) — Turnip rape

Linum usitatissimum — Linseed with the exclusion of flax

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 15th day of December, 2000.

JOE WALSH,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to designate the variety of any plant genus or species to which the farm saved seed exemption applies.

I, JOE WALSH, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 19

(2) of the

Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Act, 1998

(No. 41 of 1998) (as adapted by the Agriculture and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1999 (

S.I. No. 307 of 1999

)), hereby order as follows