Section 87
Proceedings before Authority or Registrar.
The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001
About this Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders and to encourage the development of new varieties of plants.
All proceedings before the Authority or the
Registrar, as the case may be, relating to registration of variety or essentially derived variety, registration
of agent, registration of licence or registration of compulsory licensing under this Act shall be deemed to
be judicial proceedings within the meaning of sections 193 and 228, and for the purpose of section 196 of
the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) and the Authority or the Registrar, as the case may be, shall be
deemed to be a civil court for the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).