NATIONAL CROP VARIETIES AND LIVESTOCK BREEDS (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Establishment of the National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds Register. 2. Appointment of Registrar, etc. 3. Alteration of Register. 4. Custody of Register. 5. Establishment of the National Crop Varieties Livestock Breed Registration and Release Committee. 6. Functions of the Committee. 7. Evidence. 8. Offences and penalties. 9. Regulations. 10. Interpretation. 11. Short title. SCHEDULE An Act to introduce a register for the certification, registration and release of national crop varieties and livestock breeds and other matters related thereto. [1987 No. 33.] [14th October, 1987] [Commencement.] 1. Establishment of the National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds Register There is hereby established for the purposes of this Act a register to be known as the National Register for Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds (in this Act referred to as "the National Register") in which shall be inscribed in a permanent form the names of old and new crop varieties and livestock breeds in Nigeria. 2. Appointment of Registrar, etc. (1) There shall for the purposes of this Act be appointed a Registrar and such other grades of assistants as the Registrar may consider necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. (2) The Registrar referred to in subsection (1) of this section, shall be the head of the Genetic Resources Unit in the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology or his representative. (3) The assistants shall each be appointed from the staff of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology.