COMPLIANCES APPLICABLE IN RELATION TO SELLING NOTIFIED SEEDS
A. Marking and labelling of the containers
1.1 Every mark or label on the container shall contain the following:
(a) a correct statement of the net content in terms of weight and expressed in metric system;
(b) date of testing;
(c) if the seed in container has been treated in accordance with the Seed Act:
a statement indicating that the seed has been treated;
the commonly accepted chemical or abbreviated chemical (generic) name of the applied substance; and
if the substance of the chemical used for treatment, and present with the seed is harmful to human beings or other vertebrate animals, a caution statement such as “Do not use for food, feed or oil purposes”. The caution for mercurials and similarly toxic substance shall be the word “Poison” which shall be in type size, prominently displayed on the label in red;
(d) the name and address of the person who offers for sale, sells or otherwise supplies the seed and who is responsible for its quality; and
(e) the name of the Notified Seed.
1.2 The mark or label containing the particulars of the Notified Seed shall appear on each container of seed or on a tag or mark or label attached to the container in a conspicuous place on the innermost container in which the seed is packed and on every other covering in which that container is packed and shall be legible.
1.3 Any transparent cover or any wrapper, case or other covering used solely for the purpose of packing of transport or delivery need not be marked or labelled.
1.4 The mark or label shall not contain any statement, claim, design, device, fancy name or abbreviation which is false or misleading in any particular concerning the seed contained in the container.
B. Other requirements
2.1 Every person selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, bartering or otherwise supplying any Notified Seed, shall keep over a period of 3 years a complete record of each lot of seed sold except that any seed sample may be discarded 1 year after the entire lot represented by such sample has been disposed of.
2.2 The sample of seed kept as part of the complete record shall be as large as the size notified in the official Gazette. This sample, if required to be tested, shall be tested only for determining the purity.