Section 17: Prohibition of import and manufacture of certain insecticides.

The Insecticides Act, 1968Central Act · Act 46 of 1968

(1) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, import or manufacture--

(a) any misbranded insecticide;

(b) any insecticide the sale, distribution or use of which is for the time being prohibited under section 27;

(d) any insecticide in contravention of any other provision of this Act or of any rule made thereunder:

Provided that any person who has applied for registration of an insecticide [under any of the provisos] to sub-section (1) of section 9 may continue to import or manufacture any such insecticide and such insecticide shall not be deemed to be a misbranded insecticide within the meaning of sub-clause (vi) or sub-clause (vii) or sub-clause (viii) of clause (k) of section 3, until he has been informed by the Registration Committee of its decision to refuse to register the said insecticide.

(2) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, manufacture any insecticide except under, and in accordance with the conditions of, a licence issued for such purpose under this Act.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Insecticides Act, 1968
Section	17
Marginal note	Prohibition of import and manufacture of certain insecticides.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	1

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Act 46 of 1972. . Subs. by Act 46 of 1972, s. 4, for "under the proviso" (w.e.f. 1-8-1971).

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