Section 97
Rules, regulations and schemes to be laid before Parliament.
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.
Every rule and every regulation
and every scheme made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House
of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one
session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately
following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification
in the rule or regulation or scheme or both Houses agree that the rule or regulation or scheme should not
be made, the rule or regulation or scheme shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of
no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without
prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation or scheme.