The Seeds Act,1966
Section 2. Definitions
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(1) “Agriculture” includes horticulture;
(2) “Central Seed Laboratory” means the Central Seed Laboratory or declared as such under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(3) “Certification agency” means the certification agency established under section 8 or recognised under section 18;
(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;
(9) “Notified kind or variety”, in relation to any seed, means any kind or variety thereof notified under section 5;
(10) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(11) “Seed” means any of the following classes of seeds used for sowing or planting–
(i) Seed of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;
(ii) Cotton seeds;
(iii) Seeds of cattle fodder, and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder;
(12) “Seed Analyst” means a Seed Analyst appointed under section 12;
(13) “Seed Inspector” means a Seed Inspector appointed under section 13;
(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.
