An Act to provide for the regulation and control of the production, sale
and import of seed for sowing and of the export of seed, and to provide
for the testing and for minimum standards of germination and purity
thereof, and further to provide for the certification of seed and for
matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
[1st December, 1968]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Plant Variety and Seeds Act.
Short title
(As amended by Act No. 21 of 1995)
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"aggrieved party" means any person whose application for registration
under Part II has been refused or made subject to any condition by the
Certifying Authority, or any person who had been registered under Part
II and whose registration has been cancelled by the Certifying
Authority;
"authorised officer" means an officer appointed under section three.
"certified seed" means any prescribed seed which is certified under the
provisions of Part VIII;
"contract of sale" includes an agreement to sell;
"Certifying Agency" means any seed company or institution licenced as
a seed testing station under Part II.
"Certifying Authority" means the person designated as such in
pursuance of the provisions of section three;
"court" means a subordinate court, save where otherwise appears;
Interpretation