Section 2, Seeds Act, 1966 – Definitions

2. 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 sub-section (1) of section 3;

(5)

"container" means a box, bottle, gasket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper or other thing in which any article or thing is placed or packed;

(6)

"export" means taking out of India to a place outside India;

(7)

"import" means bringing into India from a place outside India;

(8)

"kind" means one or more related species or sub-species of crop plants each individually or collectively known by one common name such as cabbage, maize, paddy and wheat;

(9)

"notified kind or variety", in relation to any seed, means any kind or variety thereof notified under section 5;

(10)

"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(11)

"seed" means any of the following classes of seeds used for sowing or planting—

(i)

seed of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;

(ii)

cotton seeds;

(iii)

seeds of cattle fodder;

[(iv) jute seeds,] and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder;

(12)

"Seed Analyst" means a Seed Analyst appointed under section 12;

(13)

"Seed Inspector" means a Seed Inspector appointed under section 13;

(14)

"State Government" in relation to a Union Territory, means the administrator thereof;

(15)

"State Seed Laboratory", in relation to any State, means the State Seed Laboratory established or declared as such under sub-section (2) of section 4 for that State; and

(16)

"variety"means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by growth, yield, plant, fruit, seed, or other characteristic.

Amendment notes (1)

Ins w.e.f. 16-1-1973 . Ins. by Act 55 of 1972, s. 2 (w.e.f. 16-1-1973).