LEGAL NOTICE NO. 161 THE SEEDS AND PLANT VARIETIES ACT(Cap. 326) IN EXERCISE of thepowers conferred by section 7 of the Seeds and Plant Varieties Act. theMinister for Agriculture makes the following Regulations— THE SEEDS AND PLANT VARIETIES (NATIONAL INDEX OF PLANTVARIETIES) REGULATIONS, 2006 Citation.1. These Regulationsmay be cited as the Seeds and Plant Varieties (National Index of PlantVarieties) Regulations, 2006. Interpretation.2. In theseRegulations, unless the context otherwise requires— "authorizedofficer" means the managing director of Kenya Plant Health InspectorateService; "maintainer"means the owner or one who is a custodian of the genetic material of the plantvariety on arrangement with the owner; "owner"means the individual developer or institution of the plant variety; "varietyname" means the distinguishable commercial names of the seeds of thedistinct plant variety; "year ofrelease" means the year when the Natio...