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(1) Any persons selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, bartering orotherwise supplying any seed of any notified kind or variety may, if he desiresto have such seed certified by the certification agency, apply to thecertification agency for the grant of a certificate for the purpose.
(2)Every application under sub-Section (1) shall be made in such form, shallcontain such particulars and shall be accompanied by such fees as may beprescribed.
(3) Onreceipt of any such application for the grant of a certificate, thecertification agency may, after such enquiry as sit thinks fit and aftersatisfying itself that the seed to which the application relates conforms to the1 [prescribed standards] grant a certificate in such form and on suchconditions as may be prescribed.
2 [Providedthat such standards shall not be lower that the minimum limits of germinationand purity specified for that seed under clause 9a) of section 6.]
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1.Substituted for words "in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiryof the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following" byThe seeds (Amendment) Act, 1972, w.e.f. 09-09-1972.
2.Insertedby The seeds (Amendment) Act, 1972, w.e.f. 09-09-1972.