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(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Cotton Seeds (Regulation of Supply, Distribution. Sale and Fixation of Sale Price) Act. 2008. (2) It shall be deemed to ha'e come into force on I !Ill June. 2008. Ddiaiboas. 2. In this AeL unless the context othen.nsc requires,- (!) '·Agronomic Performances" means distinguishable agronomic qualitative and quantitative characteristics of any conon seeds variety considered for evaluation of performance as claimed by the producer on label; (2) "Controller" means the Cotton Seeds Controller appointed under section 3; (3) "Cotton Seeds" means cotton seeds of any variety and includes transgenic and genetically modified cotton seeds varieties used for sowing; (4) -·Farmer" means any pcr:.on "'<ho raise..~ cotton crops dther by cultivating the land by himsdf or through any other person but shall not include person-, companies. traders, dealen; who arc engaged in the commercial procurement and sale of seeds; (5) ··Misbranded .. the seeds >hall be deemed to be misbranded, if - (i) it is a substitute for, or resembles in a manner likely to deceive, another variety of seed under the name of which it is sold, and is not plainly and conspicuollSly labe!cd so as to indicate its true nature; or (ii) it is falsely stated co be the produce of any place or country: or (iii) it is sold by a name which belongs to another kind or variety of seeds; or (iv) false claims are made for it upon the label or othel'\\ise; or (v) i.old in a package which bas been sealed or prepared by, or at the instance, of the dealer and which bears his name and address, the contents of each package are not conspicuously and correctly stated on the outside thereof within Lhe limits of variability prescribed under this Act; or (vi) the package containing it or the label on the package bears any statement, design or device regarding the quality of cotton seeds contained therein, which is false or misleading in any material particular or if the package is otherwise deceptive with respect oi ns contentS: or 54 ofl966. 10 ofl'5S. 29 ofl986. PART IV] GUJARAT GOVbRNMENT GAZETTE, EX,. 30-9-2008 21-3 (vii) it is not registered in the manner required by or under the provisions of this Act; or (viii) its label does not contain a warning or caution, which may be necessary and sufficient, if complied with to prevent risk to human beings or animals; or (ix) the package containing it or the label on the package bears the name of a fictitious individual or company as the dealer of the kind or variety; or (x) it is not labeled in accordance v.ith the requirement of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder; (6) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (7) ''producer" means a person, group of persons, firm or company or organisation who grov.-s or organises the production of canon seeds: (8) "Spurious Seeds- means the cotton seeds "'hicb is not genuine or true to its type; (9) "State Seeds Testing Laboratory" means a I aboratory established or declared as such by the State Government by a notification published in the Official Gazette: (10) ''sub-standard seeds" means conon seeds which does not meet with the prescribed standards for the cotton seeds; (11) '·Transgenic Variety" means seeds or planting material synthesised or developed by modifying or altering the genetic composition by means of genetic engineering; ( 12) "V aricty" means a plant grouping except micro-organi~m within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank. which can be - (i) defined by the expression of the cbar<1eteristics resulting from a given genotype of that plant grouping; (ii) distinguished from any other plant grouping by expression of at least one of the said characteristics; (iii considered as a unit v.ith regard to Its suitability for being propagated which remains unchanged after such propagation; and includes propagating material of such variety, extant variety, transgenic variety, farmers' variety and essentially derived variety; (13) The words and expressions US<.~ in this Act but 001 defined shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the Seeds Act, 1966, the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, Seeds (Control) Order, 1983 issued there under and the Environment (Protection) Act,