7 U.S.C. § 2355

Effect of defective execution

Any document to be filed in the Plant Variety Protection Office and which is required by any law or regulation to be executed in a specified manner may be provisionally accepted by the Secretary despite a defective execution, provided a properly executed document is submitted within such time as may be prescribed.

( Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 25 , Dec. 24, 1970 , 84 Stat. 1545 .)