A premises on which the business of the prepacking of propagating material for sale is conducted, may be registered as an establishment and the registration thereof be renewed if—
| (a) |
the place where propagating material is stored and prepacked on the premises concerned— |
| (ii) |
has efficient lighting so that any marks, printing or writing on containers of propagating material or on labels attached to such propagating material or containers may readily be read; |
| (iii) |
has efficient ventilation so that excessive humidity and high temperatures which may detrimentally affect the propagating material are prevented; and |
| (iv) |
is kept in an orderly, tidy and clean condition at all times; |
| (b) |
the available facilities at the premises concerned are adequate and efficient to ensure the satisfactory prepacking of the kinds and varieties of propagating material which are normally handled there; |
| (c) |
propagating material is handled and stored at the premises concerned in such a manner that— |
| (i) |
it is protected against damage by insects and rodents; |
| (ii) |
it is kept separate from anything else by storing it in different stores, or by dividing it by means of solid partitions, or by means of spaces at least one metre wide; |
| (iii) |
access to each lot of propagating material can readily be obtained; and |
| (iv) |
admixing of propagating material of different kinds of plants is prevented, except if it is done in order to make up a mixture or, in the case of seed, to add a pollinator; and |
| (d) |
the applicable particulars which are required in terms of these regulations, are marked, printed or written on containers of propagating material, or on labels attached to the propagating material or containers concerned. |
Statistics Act, 1999
