N.R.C.D. 100
Seeds (Certification and Standards) Act. 1972
(b)
establishing grades with appropriate names for seeds, and providing grades
requiring varietal purity for the use of standards established by the national
seed committee;
(c)
prescribing the conditions under which and the manner in which seed crops
may be inspected or seeds may be graded or tested;
(d)
prescribing the minimum standards of purity, germination, quality and disease of seeds;
in respect of the marking, packaging of seeds and labelling of packages;
(e)
(f)
prescribing the conditions under which variety names of seeds may be used;
(g) for the testing of samples of seeds;
(h) prescribing the fee to be charged for a service provided under this Act; (i)
prescribing the species of plants the seeds of which are weed seeds;
(j) prescribing for any other matters considered necessary to give effect to this
Act.
9. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"grade name" includes a mark, description or designation of a grade;
''importer'' has the meaning assigned to it in the Customs Ordinance (Cap. 167);
''inspector'' means a person designated as inspector under section 2;
"label" includes legend, work mark, symbol or design applied or attached to, included
in, belonging to or accompanying, a seed or a package;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Agriculture;
"package" includes sack, bag, barrel, case or any other container in which seed is
placed or packed;
"place" includes a vehicle, vessel, railway, an aircraft, a seed store, seed process
ing plant or seed warehouse;
"prescribed" means prescribed by the Regulations;
"quality" means seeds which conform to the standard prescribed;
"Regulations" means the Regulations made under this Act;
"seed" means the seed or planting material or a cereal, forage, legume, tree, turf,
root, crop, vegetable, tobacco, fibre or an oil bearing crop grown or sold for the purpose of
propagation;
"seed production" means the process of producing seed for further propagation;
"sell" includes offer for sale, expose for sale or have in possession for sale and
distribution.
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