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 7: Regulation or sale of seeds of notified kinds or varieties.
    No person shall, himself or by any other person on his behalf, carry on the business of selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, bartering or otherwise supplying any seed of any notified kind or variety, unless--
         (a) such seed is identifiable as to its kind or variety;
         (b) such seed conforms to the minimum limits of germination and purity specified under clause (a) of section 6;
         (c) the container of such seed bears in the prescribed manner, the mark or label containing the correct particulars thereof, specified under clause (b) of section 6; and
         (d) he complies with such other requirements as may be prescribed.
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