(1) The State Government may, by publication of notification in the Official Gazette, appoint persons possessing the prescribed qualifications, to be the Seed Inspectors and specify the local areas within which they shall exercise jurisdiction.
(2) The Seed Inspector, if he has reason to believe that any person dealing in trade of cotton seed has contravened any of the directions issued by the Controller, or that the quality of the cotton seed supplied by such person is of suspicious nature or that any person is about to commit an offence in respect of cotton seed, shall enter and search any premises and draw samples and detain or seize the stock of cotton seed and records and after receiving the report of Seed Analyst, shall take all further action as specified in this Act.
(3) When a sample has been taken by the Seed Inspector, he shall forward one seed sample to the Seed Analyst for analysis and hand over another sealed sample, in the prescribed manner, to the person from whom it was taken.