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

Chapter 3 : Registration of Business and Premises

23. Exemptions regarding certain plants and propagating material

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(1) This Act does not apply to—
(a) propagating material intended for purposes other than the cultivation thereof;
(b) the cleaning and conditioning of propagating material for private and non-commercial purposes by the producer thereof for own use;
(c) the sale of propagating material by the producer thereof to the person in whose name the certificate of registration in respect to a premises was issued:

Provided that—

(i) in the case of propagating material certified under a scheme, the containers of the material must be sealed and labelled or marked in accordance with the provisions of the scheme; and
(ii) in the case of propagating material not certified under a scheme, the name and address of the producer, the kind of plant and the denomination of the variety concerned must be clearly and legibly marked on the container thereof or on a label attached thereto or on an accompanying invoice; or
(d) non-commercial varieties of the kinds of plants regulated by this Act.

 

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(d), ‘‘non-commercial variety’’—
(a) means an unprotected variety of any kind of plant regulated by this Act that is available for cultivation and sale on such non-commercial scale as may be prescribed; and
(b) in the case of any kind of plant of which seeds are regulated by this Act, means any open-pollinated variety of that kind of plant.