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Variety list.
21. (1) The Registrar shall keep a list in which shall be entered —
(a) the denomination used in Swaziland for a variety on the date on which the kind of plant
to which such a variety belongs, becomes a plant to which this Act applies;
(b) the denomination of a variety recognized under section 20.
(2) The variety list shall be published in the Gazette, at least once a year and not later than the
1st July each year.
PART IV
CERTIFICATION SCHEMES
Establishment of certification schemes.
22. (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, establish a scheme for the certification of seeds
with the object of maintaining the quality of the seeds and of ensuring the usefulness for agricultural
or industrial purposes of the products derived therefrom.
(2) Different schemes may be established for seeds of different kinds of plants and the
requirements, for different kinds and varieties of plants, may differ.
(3) The Minister may recognize certification schemes in other countries to be of equal or higher
standard than the certification schemes established under this Act and may, in such cases, recognize
seed produced under such schemes as imported certified seed.
(4) The Minister may, at any time by notice in the Gazette, amend or revoke a scheme.
Provision of a scheme.
23. The Minister may, in a notice referred to under section 22 —
(a) designate the Seed Quality Control Services to be the authority which shall exercise the
powers, perform the functions and carry out the duties conferred upon, assigned to or
imposed upon such an authority under a scheme;
(b) provide that any person intending to participate in a scheme and any unit for
certification shall be registered with the authority referred to in paragraph (a);
(c) provide for the manner in which a person or a unit for certification shall be registered
and the forms to be used for an application for registration;
(d) prescribe the requirements for registration to be complied with by a person or unit for
certification, the conditions under which such a person or unit shall be registered and
the period of validity of such registration;
(e) provide that, as from the date on which a person or a unit for certification is registered
in terms of a scheme, the provisions of such a scheme shall be binding on such a person
or unit;
(f) provide for the manner in which and the control subject to which seed intended for
certification under a scheme shall be produced and treated;
(g) determine the manner in which and the times at which any inspection of units for
certification or of seeds with reference to which the provisions of a scheme are
applicable, shall be carried out, and the forms to be used in connection with such an
inspection;
(h) determine the requirements and standards of quality which seed shall comply with for
certification in terms of a scheme;
(i) determine the manner in which seed shall be certified, the form of a certificate in
connection therewith and the circumstances under which such a certificate shall lapse;
(j) determine the manner in which certified seed shall be packed, marked, labelled, sealed,
stored or distributed, and the specifications of the labels and seals to be used therefor;
(k) determine the information which shall appear on the containers in which certified seed
is packed, or on the labels affixed thereto;
(l) determine the records to be kept and the information to be furnished by any person
registered under a scheme;
(m) determine the fees or charges payable to the authority designated under paragraph (a),
by any person registered under a scheme;
(n) confer on the authority the powers of inspection referred to in section 24;
(o) provide that the provision of section 31 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply with reference to
any person who feels aggrieved by any decision or action taken in connection with a
scheme by the authority;
(p) provide generally for any other matter which, in the opinion of the Minister, is
necessary or expedient in order to further or better achieve the objects of a scheme.