law: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
  80. Death of party to
  
  a proceeding.-
  If a person who is a
  
  party to a proceeding under this Act (not being a proceeding in a court) dies
  
  pending the proceeding, the Authority or the Registrar, as the case may be,
  
  may, on request, and on proof to the satisfaction of such Authority or
  
  Registrar, of the transmission of the interest of the deceased person,
  
  substitute in the proceedings his successor in interest in his place, or, if
  
  the Authority or the Registrar is of opinion that the interest of the deceased person
  
  is sufficiently represented by the surviving party, permit the proceedings to
  
  continue without the substitution of his successor in interest.