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Plant Improvement Act, 1976 (Act No. 53 of 1976)

13. Requirements relating to sale of plants and propagating material

 

(1) Plants and propagating material shall only be sold for purposes of cultivation—
(a) if the plants and propagating material are of a variety which is entered in the varietal list;
(b) under the denomination entered in respect thereof in the varietal list;
(c) if no qualifying term or reference is added to or used in connection with the denomination referred to in paragraph (b);
(d) if the plant or propagating material, as the case may be, complies with the requirements prescribed in respect thereof; and
(e) if, in the case of—
(i) propagating material, the material is prepackaged or is packed in containers which comply with the prescribed requirements and are sealed and branded, marked or labelled in the prescribed manner with the prescribed information; or
(ii) a plant, the prescribed information appears on a label affixed to the plant or on the container in which the plant grows or is packed.

 

(2) The registrar may, on good cause shown in writing, give written exemption from compliance with one or more of the requirements referred to in subsection (1) subject to such conditions as he or she may in each case determine.

 

[Section 13 substituted by section 9 of Act No. 25 of 1996]