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(11) Upon harvesting, the seed inspector shall supervise transportation by issuing a transport
order in Form SR 7 in the Sixth Schedule after the seed containers have been clearly marked with
indelible ink.
Seed Processing
12.—(1) Only registered seed merchants shall process seed.
(2) Registered merchants shall be allowed to have for processing only seed from fields that
have been approved, or seed permitted to be imported into Kenya in bulk.
(3) Every seed merchant shall notify the Director before processing any seed lots; and upon
such notification, the Director, or his agent shall issue a work order to the merchant in Form SR 8 in
the Sixth Schedule.
(4) The Director or his agents may enter and inspect the premises of any merchant processing
seed.
(5) During processing, the seed inspectors shall perform machine inspection and lot
examination, and order reprocessing where processing is ineffective.
(6) Processed seed shall be properly marked and stored separately in identifiable lots.
(7) The merchant shall pay the appropriate lot examination fees as prescribed in the Fifth
Schedule.
Seed Sampling
13.—(1) All seed delivered in lorries to seed driers shall be sampled.
(2) All processed lots shall be sampled and the sample shall be provided free of charge for
purposes of laboratory seed testing and post control planting and examination.
(3) All the samples shall bear a unique seed lot reference number.
(4) Lots shall be created at the time of sampling and shall not exceed the maximum weights
prescribed in these Regulations.
(5) Where automatic samplers have not been installed, the seed merchant shall arrange the
packages in such a way as to enable the seed inspector to reach all packages and draw samples.
(6) The sampling of seed lots shall be conducted in accordance with the current International
Seed Testing Association procedure.
(7) Crops from different fields of the same origin, species and cultivar which have passed
field inspection may be blended and bulked to constitute one seed lot.
(8) The seed merchant shall provide reliable scales for ascertaining the weight of a seed lot.
(9) The seed merchant shall pay the appropriate fees for seed sampling prescribed in the Fifth
Schedule.
KE011EN
Plant Variety, Regulations (Ch. 326), 01/01/1975 (1991)
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