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(1) Any person desiring to import or manufacture any insecticide
may apply to the Registration Committee for the registration of such insecticide and there shall be a
separate application for each such insecticide:
Provided that any person engaged in the business of import or manufacture of any insecticide
immediately before the commencement of this section shall make an application to the Registration
Committee within a period of1
[seventeen months] from the date of such commencement for the
registration of any insecticide which he has been importing or manufacturing before that date:
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[Provided further that where any person referred to in the preceding proviso fails to make an
application under that proviso within the period specified therein, he may make such application at any
time thereafter on payment of a penalty of one hundred rupees for every month or part thereof after the
expiry of such period for the registration of each such insecticide.]
(2) Every application under sub-section (1) shall be made in such form and contain such particulars as
may be prescribed.
(3) On receipt of any such application for the registration of an insecticide, the Committee may, after
such enquiry as it deems fit and after satisfying itself that the insecticide to which the application relates
conforms to the claims made by the importer or by the manufacturer, as the case may be, as regards
the efficacy of the insecticide and its safety to human beings and animals, register 3
[on such conditions as
may be specified by it] and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed, the insecticide, allot a
registration number thereto and issue a certificate of registration in token thereof within a period of twelve
months from the date of receipt of the application:
Provided that the Committee may, if it is unable within the said period to arrive at a decision on the
basis of the materials placed before it, extend the period by a further period not exceeding six months:
Provided further that if the Committee is of opinion that the precautions claimed by the applicant as
being sufficient to ensure safety to human beings or animals are not such as can be easily observed or that
notwithstanding the observance of such precautions the use of the insecticide involves serious risk to
human beings or animals, it may refuse to register the insecticide.
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[(3A) In the case of applications received by it prior to the 31st day of March, 1975, notwithstanding
the expiry of the period specified in sub-section (3) for the disposal of such applications, it shall be lawful
and shall be deemed always to have been lawful for the Registration Committee to dispose of such
applications at any time after such expiry but within a period of one year from the commencement of the
Insecticides (Amendment) Act, 1977 (24 of 1977):
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall be deemed to make any contravention before
the commencement of the Insecticides (Amendment) Act, 1977 (24 of 1977), of a condition of a
certificate of registration granted before such commencement, an offence punishable under this Act.
(3B) Where the Registration Committee is of opinion that the insecticide is being introduced for the
first time in India, it may, pending any enquiry, register it provisionally for a period of two years on such
conditions as may be specified by it.
(3C) The Registration Committee may, having regard to the efficacy of the insecticide and its safety
to human beings and animals, vary the conditions subject to which a certificate of registration has been
granted and may for that purpose require the certificate-holder by notice in writing to deliver up the
certificate to it within such time as may be specified in the notice.]
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, where an insecticide has been registered on
the application of any person, any other person desiring to import or manufacture the insecticide or
engaged in the business of, import or manufacture thereof shall on application and on payment of
prescribed fee be allotted a registration number and granted a certificate of registration in respect thereof
on the same conditions on which the insecticide was originally registered.
1. Subs. by Act 46 of 1972, s. 2, for "six months" (w.e.f. 1-8-1971).
2. Proviso ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-8-1971).
3. Subs. by Act 24 of 1977, s. 3, for "on such conditions" (w.e.f. 2-8-1977).
4. Ins. by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 2-8-1977).