7(1)Any priority which an application for the grant of plant breeders’ rights enjoys by virtue of paragraph 6 above shall be forfeited if the applicant does not, before the end of the relevant period, satisfy all the requirements which are to be satisfied by an applicant before plant breeders’ rights can be granted to him.U.K.
(2)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, the relevant period is the period of 2 years beginning with the day after the last day on which the applicant could have claimed priority under paragraph 6 above for his application.
(3)Where—
(a)an application for the grant of plant breeders’ rights enjoys priority by virtue of paragraph 6 above, and
(b)the application by reference to which it enjoys priority is withdrawn or refused before the applicant has satisfied all the requirements which are to be satisfied by an applicant before plant breeders’ rights can be granted to him,
sub-paragraph (1) above shall have effect with the substitution for “the relevant period” of “ such period as the Controller may specify ”.