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SECTIONS 35 AND 84 PLANT VARIETY AND SEEDS
REGULATIONS

Statutory
Instrument
67 of 1988
157 of 1989
Act No.
13 of 1994
21 of 1995

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Variety and Seeds
Regulations.

Title

2.

Interpretation

In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires-

"Certifying Authority" means the authority established by section three
of the Act;
"control growing" means the growing of plants under tests to determine
the cultivar purity and disease infection;
"cultivar" means a subdivision of any species of seed which can be
distinguished from other subdivisions of that species by means of
growth, plant, fruit or other characteristics;
"field inspection" means an inspection of a seed field and includes the
checking of isolation, hectarage, off-types and weeding usually as part
of a seed certification programme;
"germination capacity" means the percentage by number of seeds
which, in the course of a germination test, have produced normal
seedlings;
"isolation" means the required distance between two crops of the same
species or between two crops of too closely related species to prevent
contamination either mechanically or by pollination;
"I.S.T.A.' means the International Seed Testing Association;

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