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Plant Improvement Act, 2018 (Act No. 11 of 2018)

Chapter 3 : Registration of Business and Premises

9. Types of business that may be conducted

 

(1) Any person who desires to conduct one or more of the following types of business relating to plants or propagating material for cultivation or sale, must be registered in terms of this Act and must comply with the prescribed requirements, unless exempted in terms of section 19:
(a) The cleaning and conditioning of seed;
(b) the pre-packing of seed;
(c) the selling of seed;
(d) the running of a nursery or any other type of multiplication facility;
(e) the running of a laboratory;
(f) the importation of plants or propagating material; or
(g) the export of plants or propagating material.

 

(2) A person may not conduct a type of business referred to in subsection (1) on or from any premises unless—
(a) the premises is registered under this Act; and
(b) the type of business is specified on the certificate of registration issued in respect of such premises.

 

(3) Subject to subsection (2), a person may—
(a) conduct different types of business referred to in subsection (1) on or from the same premises; and
(b) conduct a type of business referred to in subsection (1) on or from more than one premises,

as long as the prescribed facilities are available and prescribed practises are employed on the premises in question.

 

(4) A person may not conduct a type of business referred to in subsection (1) on or from any premises of which the registration—
(a) has lapsed due to failure to renew the registration in terms of section 17 within the prescribed period; or
(b) has been terminated by the Registrar in terms of section 20.

 

(5) For the purposes of this section, subsection (1)(a) to (c) does not include the cleaning and conditioning, pre-packing and selling of tubers.