Act Number: 54

Act Name: The Seeds Act, 1966

Year: 1966

Enactment Date: 1966-12-29

Long Title: An Act to provide for regulating the quality of certain seeds for sale, and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Agricultural Research and Education

Section 5: Power to notify kinds or varieties of seeds.
    If the Central Government, after consultation with the Committee, is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient to regulate the quality of seed of any kind or variety to be sold for purposes of agriculture, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare such kind or variety to be a notified kind or variety for the purposes of this Act and different kinds or varieties may be notified for different States or for different areas thereof.
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