§ 2426. Confidential status of application

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 II § 56 · 84 Stat. 1542

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2426

   Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 56, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1549

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 56, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1549

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 56. Confidential Status of Application. Applications for plant, variety protection and their contents shall be kept in confidence by the Plant Variety Protection Office, by the Board, and by the offices in the Department of Agriculture to which access may be given under regulations. No information concerning the same shall be given without the authority of the owner, unless necessary tinder special circumstances as may be determined by the Secretary, except that the Secretary may publish the variety names designated in applications, stating the kind to which each applies.

2. 1980

   Pub. L. 96–574 § 12 · 94 Stat. 3350

   Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 2426

   Pub. L. 96–574 inserted provisions relating to name of applicant and sale of the variety

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 96–574 inserted provisions relating to name of applicant and sale of the variety.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 12. Section 56 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2426) is amended by changing the period at the end of the second sentence to a comma and adding immediately thereafter the following: “the name of the applicant, and whether the applicant specified that the variety is to be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision