Plant Breeder s Rights [No.18of2007 241 GOVERNMENT OF ZA.\1BIA ACT No.18 of 2007 Date of Assent: 30th August, 2007 An Act to provide for the protection of plant breeder's rights; the registration of plant varieties; and for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. [31st August, 2007 ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. Enactment PART I I'RaIMINARY 1. This Act may be cited as the Plant Breeder's Rights Act, 2007. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"Appeals Board" means the Appeals Board established under section fifty-five; " assignee" in relation to a variety, means a person who has derived a title to the variety, directly or indirectly, from a breeder or owner thereof, or the legal representative of that person; " breeder" in relation to a protected variety means(a) the person who or organisation which has bred,discovered and developed the plant variety; (b) the employer of the personreferred to in paragraph (a) if that person is an employee whose duties are such that the variety was bred, discovered and developed in the performance of the employee's duties; or (c) the successor in title of the person referred to in paragraph (a) or the employer referred to in paragraph (b); Short title Interpretation