THE SEEDS ACT, 1966

(ACT NO. 54 OF 1966)

[29th December, 1966]

An Act to provide for regulating the quality of certain seeds for sale, and for matters
connected therewith

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Short title, extent and commencement

1. (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, and different dates may be
appointed for different provisions of this Act, and for different States or for
different areas thereof.

Definitions

2. 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

(4)“Committee” means the Central Seed Committee constituted under sub-section

(1) of Section 3;

(5)“Container” means a box, bottle, casket, 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;
 3. (1) The Central Government
(9)“notified kind or variety” , in shall, as soon as may be
relation to any seed, means any kind or after the commencement of
variety this Act, constitute a
Committee called the
thereof notified under Section
5; Central Seed Committee to
advise the Central
Government and the State
(10)“Prescribed” means prescribed by Governments on matters
rules made under this act; arising out of the
administration of this Act
(11)“seed” means any of the following and to carry out the other
classes of seeds used for sowing or functions assigned to it by
planting- or under this Act.

(i)seeds of food crops including (2)The Committee shall consist of the

edible oil seeds and seeds of following members, namely:-
fruits and vegetables;
(i)a Chairman to be
nominated by the Central
(ii)cotton seeds; Government;
(iii)seeds of cattle fodder; (ii)eight persons to be
nominated by the
and includes seedlings, and Central Government
tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, to represent such
cuttings, all types of grafts and interests that
other vegetatively propagated Government thinks fit,
material, of food crops or cattle of whom not less than
fodder; two persons shall be
representatives of
(12)“Seed Analyst” means a Seed growers of seed;
Analyst appointed under section 12;
(iii)one person to be
nominated by the
(13)“Seed Inspector” means a Seed
Inspector appointed under section 13; Government of each of the
States.

(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.

Central Seed Committee

 Committee Central Seed
(3) The or wholly of Laboratory and State
members of other Seed Laboratory
the persons or
Committee partly of 4. (1) The Central
shall, unless members of Government
their seats the may, by
become Committee notification
vacant and partly in the
earlier by of other Official
resignation, persons, as Gazette,
death or it thinks fit, establish a
otherwise, for the Central
be entitled purpose of Seed
to hold discharging Laboratory
office for such of its or declare
two years functions as any seed
and shall be may be laboratory
eligible for delegated to as the
renominatio
such sub- Central
n.
committee Seed
or sub- Laboratory
(4) The
committees to carry out
Committee
by the the
may, subject
Committee. functions
to the
previous entrusted to
(6) The the Central
approval of
functions of the Seed
the Central
Committee or any sub- Laboratory
Government
committee thereof may by or under
, make bye-
be exercised this Act.
laws fixing
notwithstanding any
the quorum
vacancy therein. (2) The State
and
regulating Government
(7) The Central may, by
its own
Government notification
procedure
shall in the
and the
appoint a Official
conduct of
person to be Gazette,
all business
the establish
to be
secretary of one or more
transacted
the State Seed
by it.
Committee Laboratories
and shall or declare
(5) The
provide the any seed
Committee
Committee laboratory
may appoint
with such as a State
one or more
clerical and Seed
sub-
other staff Laboratory
committees,
as the where
consisting
Central analysis of
wholly of
Government seeds of any
members of
considers notified
the
necessary. kind or
 variety shall
be carried
out by Seed
Analysts
under this
Act in the
prescribed
manner.

Power to notify kinds or

varieties of seeds
5. If the Central
Government
, after
consultation
with the
committee,
is of opinion
that it is
necessary or
expedient to
regulate the
quality of
seed of any
kind or
variety to be
sold for
purposes of
agriculture,
it may, by
notification
in the
Official
Gazette,
declare such
kind or
variety to be
a notified
kind or
variety for
the purposes
of the Act
and
different
kinds or
varieties
may be
notified for
different
States or for
different
areas
thereof.
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Power to specify particul g ars
minimum limits of ars any thereof,
germination and which seed specifie
purity, etc. marks of d under
or label any clause
6. The may notif (b) of
Central contain. ied section
Government kind 6; and
Regulation of sale or (d)he
may, after
of seeds of vari complie
consultation of
notified kinds or ety, s with
the Committee
varieties unle such
and by
ss- other
7. No require
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pers (a)such ments as
the Official
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use o n e s k a
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(1) d h h t e u
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14: a d cl u h t
v d a r al h
( e o u n l, e
a n e s o a r
) e s e f s e
h s n o t s o
e a o r, h o f;
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al o o t o a c
l f c h c s )
u t o e k m w
s h n c o a it
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al p a s t b o
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p at at s nt a after
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e y d s ia gi of
i b e ai l st sectio
n e f d o ra n 15,
st r e cl bj te analy
it e ct a e a se the
u m h u ct n samp
ti o a s u d le at
o v s e. n ta the
n e b d k State
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n t s er u or y and
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if o rt or (1 d of the
t f h se ) y
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g e e y n .
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d d, o c 4,
Report of
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Seed
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