---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2356"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2356"
heading: "Regulations for practice before the Office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2356"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Plant Variety Protection Office"
  - "Part B — Legal Provisions as to the Plant Variety Protection Office"
---

# §2356. Regulations for practice before the Office


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall prescribe regulations governing the admission to practice and conduct of [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) representing applicants or other parties before the Plant [Variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) Protection Office. The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude, either generally or in any particular case, from further practice before the Office of Plant [Variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) Protection any [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) shown to be incompetent or disreputable or guilty of gross misconduct.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 26, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1545.)