§ 2353. Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1970

   Pub. L. 91–577 title I § 23 · 84 Stat. 1542

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2353

   Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 23, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1544

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 23, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1544

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 23. Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office Cases. The Secretary may establish regulations for taking affidavits, depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant Variety Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take depositions to be used in the courts of the United States, or of the State where he resides, may take such affidavits and depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any person acts as a hearing officer by authority of the Secretary, he shall have like power.

2. 1994

   Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994

   Pub. L. 103–349 § 13(c) · 108 Stat. 3136

   1. Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 2353

      Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the officer” for “he” in third sentence

   2. Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 2353

      Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the person” for “he” in third sentence

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the officer” for “he” in second sentence and “the person” for “he” in third sentence.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (c) Section 23 (7 U.S.C. 2353) is amended— (1) in the second sentence, by striking “he” and inserting “the officer”; and (2) in the third sentence, by striking “he” and inserting “the person”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 103–349 effective 180 days after Oct. 6, 1994, see section 15 of Pub. L. 103–349, set out as a note under section 2401 of this title.

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