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Seeds Act, 1966 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Seeds Act, 1966. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint,2and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and for different States' or for different areas thereof."Clause 1,- Now that entry 33 in the Concurrent List has been made applicable to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Committee are of the view that the provisions of the Bill should be made applicable to that State also. This clause has been amended accordingly." J.C.R. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (1) "agriculture" includes horticulture; (2) "Central Seed Laboratory" means the Central Seed Laboratory established or declared as such under sub-section (1) of section 4-, (3) "certification agency" means the certification agency established under section 8-or recognised under section 18-; (4) "Committee" means the Central Seed Committee constituted under.....

Seeds Act, 1966 Section 15

Title: Procedure Be Followed by Seed Inspectors

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....sample in the prescribed manner for production in case any legal proceedings are taken or for analysis by the Central Seed Laboratory under sub-section (2) of section, 16, as the case may be. (3) In the person from whom the samples have been taken refuses to accept one of the samples, the Seed Inspectors shall send intimation to the Seed Analyst of such refusal and thereupon the Seed Analyst receiving the sample for analysis shall divide it into two parts and shall seal or fasten up one of those parts and shall cause it, either upon receipt of the sample or when he delivers his report, to be delivered to the Seed Inspector who shall retain it for production in case legal proceedings are taken. (4) Where a Seed Inspector takes any action under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 14,-- (a) he shall use all despatch in ascertaining whether or not the seed contravenes any of the provisions of section 7 and if it is ascertained that the seed does not so contravene, forthwith revoke the order passed under the said clause or, as the case may be, take such action as may be necessary for the return of the stock of the seed seized; (b) if he seizes the stock of the seed,.....

Seeds Act, 1966 Section 16

Title: Report of Seed Analyst

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....of a prosecution under this Act, the accused vendor or the complainant may, on payment of the prescribed fee, make an application to the court for sending any of the samples mentioned in clause (a) or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 15 to the Central Seed Laboratory for its report and on receipt of the application, the court shall first ascertain that the mark and the seal or fastening as provided in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 15 are intact and may then despatch the sample under its own seal to the Central Seed Laboratory which shall thereupon send its report to the court in the prescribed form within one month from the date or receipt of the sample, specifying the result of the analysis. (3) The report by the Central Seed Laboratory under sub-section (2) shall supersede the report given by the Seed Analyst under sub-section (1). (4) Where the report sent by the Central Seed Laboratory under sub-section (2) is produced in any proceedings under section 19, it shall not be necessary in such proceedings to produce any sample or part thereof taken for analysis.

Seeds Act, 1966 Section 14

Title: Powers of Seed Inspector

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....commission of an offence punishable under this Act; and (e) exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act or any rule made there under. (2) Where any samples of any seed of any notified kind or variety is taken under clause (a) of sub-section (1), its cost, calculated at the rate at which such seed is usually sold to the public, shall be paid on demand to the person from whom it is taken. (3) The power conferred by this section includes power to break open any container in which any seed of any notified kind or variety may be contained or to break-open the door of any premises where any such seed may be kept for sale: Provided that the power to break-open the door shall be exercised only after the owner or any other person in occupation of the premises, if he is present therein, refuses to open to the door on being called upon to do so. (4) Where the Seed Inspector takes any action under clause (a) of sub-section (1), he shall, as far as possible, call not less than two persons to be present at the time when such action is taken and take their signatures on a memorandum to be prepared in the prescribed form and manner. (5).....

Seeds Act, 1966 Section 25

Title: Power to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....of the Committee and the travelling and daily allowances payableto members of the Committee and members of any sub-committee appointed undersub-section (5) of section 3; (b)the functions of the Central Seed Laboratory; (c)the functions of a certification agency; (d)the manner of marking or labelling the container of seed of any notified kind orvariety under clause (c) of section 7 and under clause (b) of section 17; (e)the requirements which may be complied with by a person carrying on the businessreferred to in section 7; (f)the form of application for the grant of a certificate under section 9, theparticulars it may contain, the fees which should accompany it, the form of thecertificate and the conditions subject to which the certificate may be granted; 1 [(ff)the standards to which seeds should conform;] (g)the form and manner in which and the fee on payment of which an appeal may bepreferred under section 11 and the procedure to be followed by the appellateauthority in disposing of the appeal; (h)the qualifications and duties of Seed Analysts and Seed Inspectors; (i)the manner in which samples may be taken by the Seed Inspector, the procedurefor sending.....

Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 Chapter VII

Title: Regulation of Trading

State: Karnataka

Year: 1966

.....in such forms for such periods on such terms and conditions and restrictions (including provision for prohibiting brokers and commission agents from acting in any transaction both as buyer or seller or on behalf of both the buyer and seller, and also provision for prohibiting brokers from acting in any transaction,2[x x x] for prescribing the qualifications and disqualifications of licensees, the circumstances in which licences may be refused, suspended or cancelled and prescribing the manner in which and the places at which auctions of agricultural produce shall be conducted and the delivery of agricultural produce shall be made in any market or market area) and on payment of fees not being in excess of such maxima, as may be prescribed. (3) The market committee or its Chairman, if so authorised by the committee, may grant a temporary licence for a period of not more than one month to any trader not ordinarily resident in the market area to operate in the market yard or sub-yard on payment of such fee as may be fixed by the market committee subject to the condition that he shall not purchase any agricultural produce except by payment of the price in cash. _______________ .....

Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 Section 80

Title: No Deductions in Weight or Payment Other Than Those Specified

State: Karnataka

Year: 1966

.....weight or payment or any other allowance in respect of any transaction relating to notified agricultural produce other than those provided in this Act, the rules or the bye-laws; and no civil court shall, in any suit or proceeding arising out of any such transaction, entertain or allow any claim for any deduction or allowance not so provided for. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), the following deductions shall be deemed to be permissible deductions, namely:- (i) deduction of the weight of the container where the price fixed according to the bye-laws or the standing orders of the market committee relates only to the goods contained in the container and either a separate price is fixed for the container or the container is to be retained by the seller or the container is made of such material and is of so negligible value that it is permitted to be delivered to the buyer without payment of any price in accordance with the bye-laws or the standing orders of the market committee; (ii) deduction in weight on account of driage of raw produce as shall be fixed by the bye-laws or standing orders of the market committee, where according to such bye-laws or the standing.....

Seeds Act, 1966 Section 19

Title: Penalty

State: Central

Year: 1966

If any person-- (a) contravenes any provision of this act or any rule made thereunder; or (b) prevents a Seed Inspector from taking sample under this Act; or (c) prevents a Seed Inspector from exercising any other power conferred on him by or under this Act, he shall, on conviction, be punishable-- (i) for the first offence with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, and (ii) in the event of such person having been previously convicted of an offence under this section, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 Section 76

Title: Sale of Agricultural Produce

State: Karnataka

Year: 1966

The sale price of notified agricultural produce sold in the market area shall be determined either by tender system or by public auction or by open agreement or by sample or by reference to a known standard or in such other manner as may from time to time be directed, with the previous approval of the1[Director of Agricultural Marketing], by the market committee. _______________ 1. Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f.17.6.1986