PART IV
SEED TESTS
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15. The Minister may establish and maintain or designate one or more seed testing
laboratories in Malawi.
16. Upon the establishment or designation of a seed testing laboratory, and from time to time
thereafter, as occasion may require, the Minister shall by notice publish in the Gazette,
designate an official seed analyst or official seed analysts, as the case may be, for each
seed testing laboratory.
17. The Controller of Seeds shall keep and maintain the following registers (a) a register of official seed analysts which shall contain (i) the name and address of each official seed analyst appointed under this Act;
(ii) such other particulars as may be prescribed;
(b) a register of seed testing laboratories, which all contain (i) the name and address of each seed testing laboratory established under this Act;
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(ii) such other particular as may be prescribed.
18. (1) Any person who, in any place whk;h is not a seed testing :aboratory, tests or purports
to test for the purposes of this Act any prescribed seed shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Upon conviction of any person of an offence under subsection (1), the court may, in
addition to any other penalty imposed, declare any machinery, equipment and
chemicals and any prescribed seed found in the place concerned to be forfeited or
order them to be destroyed without compensation.
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19.' (1) Any person who has produced or acquired any prescribed seed which has not been
tested may request such seed to be sampled. This seed sample should be submitted
to an authorized seed testing laboratory together with a statement in writing specifying
such particulars as may be prescribed.
(2) The delivery of a sample of prespribed seed pursuant to subsection (1) shall be
subject to payment of such fee as may be prescribed.
(3) Upon receipt at the seed testing laboratory of any sample taken pursuant to
subsection (1), the official seed analyst shall test the sample in the manner
prescribed and shall furnish to the person who sought the test a report thereof
setting out the date upon which the test was made, the findings resultant thereon
and such other particulars as may appear to the official seed analyst necessary for,
or relevant to, the report.
20. Any reports, certificates or other documents issued or furnished by a seed testing
laboratory for the purposes of this Act shall be in the forms prescribed.
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