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[CITE: 7USC2353]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OFFICE
 
   Part B--Legal Provisions as to the Plant Variety Protection Office
 
Sec. 2353. Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases

    The Secretary may establish regulations for taking affidavits, 
depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant 
Variety Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take 
depositions to be used in the courts of the United States, or of the 
State where the officer resides, may take such affidavits and 
depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any person acts as a hearing 
officer by authority of the Secretary, the person shall have like power.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title I, Sec. 23, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1544; Pub. L. 
103-349, Sec. 13(c), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3143.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-349 substituted ``the officer'' for ``he'' in 
second sentence and ``the person'' for ``he'' in third sentence.


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-349 effective 180 days after Oct. 6, 1994, 
see section 15 of Pub. L. 103-349, set out as a note under section 2401 
of this title.
