Plant Variety Rights Amendment Act (No. 52 of 1994). Country/Territory New Zealand Document type Legislation Date 1994 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Plant production Breeders' rights/farmers' rights Plant variety Intellectual property rights/patents Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract This Act amends the definitions of "plant" and of "variety" of the principal Act. "Plant" is now defined as including a fungus but not an alga or a bacterium. "Variety" is now defined as a cultivar or cultivated variety of a plant and includes any clone, hybrid, stock or line of a plant, but does not include a botanical variety of a plant. Full text English References - Legislation Amends Plant Variety Rights Act 1987 (No. 5 of 1987). Legislation | New Zealand | 1987 (2016) Keyword: Institution, Plant production, Breeders' rights/farmers' rights, Plant variety, Authorization/permit, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Basic legislation, Intellectual property rights/patents Source: FAO, FAOLEX