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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part D · Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection

§ 2403. Reciprocity limits

Statutory text

Protection under this chapter may, by regulation, be limited to nationals of the United States, except where this limitation would violate a treaty and except that nationals of a foreign state in which they are domiciled shall be entitled to so much of the protection here afforded as is afforded by said foreign state to nationals of the United States for the same genus and species.

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 II § 43 · 84 Stat. 1542

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2403

    (Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 43, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1547.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 43, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1547.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 43. Reciprocity Limits. Protection under the Act may, by regulation, be limited to nationals of the United States, except where this limitation would violate a treaty and except that nationals of a foreign state in which they arc domiciled shall be entitled to so much of the protection here afforded as is afforded by said foreign state to nationals of the United States for the same genus and species.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 43, , 84 Stat. 1547.)

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