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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part B · Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection

§ 2356. Regulations for practice before the Office

Statutory text

The Secretary shall prescribe regulations governing the admission to practice and conduct of persons representing applicants or other parties before the Plant Variety Protection Office. The Secretary may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude, either generally or in any particular case, from further practice before the Office of Plant Variety Protection any person shown to be incompetent or disreputable or guilty of gross misconduct.

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. Pub. L. 91–577 title I § 26 · 84 Stat. 1542

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2356

    (Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 26, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1545.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 26, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1545.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 26. Regulations for Practice Before the Office. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations governing the admission to practice and conduct of persons representing applicants or other parties before the Plant Variety Protection Office. The Secretary may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude, either generally or in any particular case, from further practice before the Office of Plant Variety Protection any person shown to be incompetent or disreputable or guilty of gross misconduct.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 26, , 84 Stat. 1545.)

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