Period of protection

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the breeder’s right in respect of vines, forest trees, fruit trees and ornamental trees including in each case, their root stocks, shall expire twenty-five years after the grant thereof. (2) Protection for all other genera or species shall expire twenty years after the grant thereof. (3) Where in the cases referred to in section 6 (2) of this Act, a variety has already been offered for sale or marketed in Belize for a period of more than one year before the date of the filing of the application, the duration of the protection shall be reduced by the number of full years minus one year that have elapsed since the beginning of the offering for sale or the marketing, with the authorisation of the breeder or his successor in title, before the filing of the application.