Joint applicants and joint holders of rights

(1) Where there are two or more applicants for the grant of a breeder’s right or where there are two or more holders of such a right in any protected variety, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, each applicant or holder may separately transfer his shares, or exploit the variety as the case may be, or subject to this Act, exclude others from exploiting it. (2) In the case of the grant of an exclusive licence, however, the holders of the breeder’s licence may only jointly grant an exclusive licence to a third party to exploit the variety.