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Section 14 along with marginal heading substituted by the Act No.36 of 2020, s.15 (2) Hatcheries /Larval Rearing Centers shall obtain accreditation & certification as per the prescribed procedure. (3) With the approval of the State Level Seed Committee, the Controlling Authority shall be empowered to make Accreditation and Certification compulsory for any other unit, which is not covered under sub-section(2), by issuing executive orders. (4) The Controlling Authority shall be empowered to outsource the job of sample collection, analysis or any other work connected with the accreditation and certification to empanelled Third Party Agency. Such empanelled third party agency shall regularly inspect facilities of such accredited units as prescribed. (5) Procedure of according accreditation & certification, fee payable, documents to be produced by the applicant, duration of accreditation & certification and other terms and conditions shall be as prescribed.] 1 [15. Revocation of accreditation and Certification - Conditions under which the accreditation and certification is liable to be suspended / cancelled shall be as may be prescribed.] 2[16. Collection and forwarding of Sample – (1) To prevent any sort of bias, the sample collection process shall be randomized. The randomization of Aquaculture Inspector / Sample Collector and Licensee from whom sample is to be collected shall be done by system generated randomization. The detailed procedure of randomization shall be as may be prescribed. (2) In case if there are more than one empanelled laboratory in the area, the laboratory for analysis of the sample shall be chosen by system generated randomization process. (3) The Aquaculture Seed Inspector is empowered to take any sample of any brooder, feed, live feed, chemicals, medicines, aquaculture seed, water, fecal matter of brooders or any other material from a licensee for the purpose of analysis. (4) Whenever the Aquaculture Seed Inspector intends to take sample from licensee, he/she shall give notice as may be prescribed. (5) While taking live samples, Aquaculture Seed Inspector shall take three representative samples of required quantity, shall preserve, mark, seal or fasten up each sample as may be prescribed. (6) When live samples are taken the Aquaculture Seed Inspector shall,- (i) deliver one sample (1st representative sample) to the licensee from whom it has been taken under proper acknowledgement; (ii) send one of the sample (2nd representative sample) to the Regional Aquaculture Seed Analysis Laboratory, for analysis.