(c)
an applicant for registration is not satisfied with the conditions subject
to which he has been registered.
7
Appeal to Minister
Any seller of seed or seed testing laboratory—
(a)
whose application for registration has been rejected; or
(b)
whose registration has been cancelled in terms of section five; or
(c)
who or which, as the case may be, is not satisfied with the conditions
subject to which he or it has been registered:
may appeal against such rejection, cancellation or conditions, as the case may be, to
the Minister whose decision shall be final.
8
Unregistered person or laboratory may not sell or test seed
(1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall—
(a)
sell seed unless he is registered as a seller of seed; or
(b)
test seed otherwise than in a laboratory registered as a seed testing
laboratory.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the sale of seed which is grown by any farmer
and sold by him to a person for use as seed by such person.
9
Use of variety names
No person shall, unless specially authorized by the Minister—
(a)
add to the variety name under which any seed is sold any qualifying
term or reference whatsoever;
(b)
sell seed of any variety under a name other than the name given to it
by its discoverer or originator.
10
Requirements relating to seed sold
No person shall sell any seed unless such seed—
(a)
complies with the prescribed requirements; and
(b)
is packed in a container which complies with the prescribed
requirements:
Provided that the Minister may prescribe classes of seed which shall be exempt from
this section if sold subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
11
Savings as to sale of seed
This Act shall not apply to the sale of seed—
(a)
which is intended only for use as food or stock feed or for industrial
purposes; or
(b)
which is sold to a bona fide cleaner of seed in order that it may be
cleaned, graded or treated before it is used as seed, if there appears on the container in
which the seed is sold or delivered or on a label attached thereto clearly and legibly
the words “Uncleaned seed”.
12
Introduction of Seed Certification or Approval Scheme
(1) The Minister may introduce a scheme to be called the Seed Certification or
Approval Scheme.
(2) The Minister shall publish any such scheme by statutory instrument and shall
declare that it shall come into operation upon a date to be fixed in such instrument.
(3) The Minister shall designate in such instrument the organization which shall be
responsible for the administration of the scheme. The organization so designated may
be an office or division of the Ministry for which the Minister is responsible.
(4) Any scheme published under subsection (2) shall apply to and be binding on any
person who has, in pursuance of an application made by him, been registered with the
organization responsible for the administration of the scheme.
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Provisions of scheme
(1) Any scheme published under section twelve may—