PLANT VARIETIES (PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) ACT 1980LONG TITLE An Act to create proprietary rights as regards varieties of botanical genera or species, to provide for grants of such rights to persons who breed or discover such varieties and for the enforcement of such rights when granted, to establish an office to be known as the Controller of Plant Breeders' Rights, to define the functions of the holder of that office and to make other provisions connected with the foregoing. [14th July, 1980] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: 1 Interpretation. SECT 1.—(1) In this Act— "The Appeal Committee" has the meaning assigned to it by section 14 (3) of this Act; "authorisation" means an authorisation given in pursuance of section 4 (5) of this Act; "the Convention" means the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants done at Paris on the 2nd day of December, 1961, as revised at Geneva on the 10th day of November, 1972, and the 23r...