(1) This Act may be called the 2Telangana Aqua-culture Seed (Quality Control) Act, 2006.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of 2Telangana.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(1) ‘Aqua-culture’ includes culture of fish or prawn or shrimp or crab or any other aquatic animals and aquatic plants in fresh water or marine waters or brackish waters;
(2) ‘Aqua Farm’ means a place with water body used for Aqua-culture;
(3) ‘Aqua Farmer’ means an individual or a group of individuals or a firm or a Company or any other juristic person owning or having taken on lease a land or a water body and having taken up Aqua-culture in ponds or in confined waters or in structures erected in them or in any other manner;
1. The Andhra Pradesh Aqua-culture Seed (Quality Control) Act, 2006 received the assent of the Governor on the 19th April, 2006. The said Act in force in the combined State, as on 02.06.2014, has been adapted to the State of Telangana, under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 (Central Act 6 of 2014) vide. the Telangana Adaptation of Laws Order, 2016, issued in G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
2. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Short title, extent and commencement.
Definitions.
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(4) ‘Aqua-culture Seed’ means larval early stages or juveniles or any other classes of seeds of aquatic life, including plant, plants origin, used for stocking in confined waters such as tanks, lakes, ponds and pens or cages or any other structures erected in water, and includes,-
(i) seeds of cultivable aquatic animals such as fin fish, cat fish, murel including ornamental fish and larvicidal fish reared in fresh water, marine and brackish water and in aquaria;
(ii) seeds of shell fish, such as prawn, shrimp, lobsters, crab, gastropods, bivalves and such other crustaceans and mollusees;
(iii) fish larval stages (called as egg, hatchlings, spawn, fry, fingerlings, advanced fingerlings, yearlings), larval stages of prawn, shrimp, lobsters, crabs (called as nauplius, metanauplius, zoea, megalopamysis, post larvae) and larval stages of mollusees (called veliger, spat etc.);
(5) ‘Aqua-culture Seed Laboratory’ means the Aquaculture Seed Laboratory established under section 9 and this includes State Aqua-culture Seed Laboratory and Regional Aqua-culture Seed Laboratories;
(6) ‘Aqua-culture Seed Analysis’ means procedures of Aqua-culture Seed Analysis to verify the required standards of size, purity and freedom from infectious diseases;
(7) ‘Aqua-culture Seed Analyst’ means an Aqua-culture Seed Analyst appointed under section 20;
(8) ‘Aqua-Culture Seed Inspector’ means an Aquaculture Seed Inspector appointed under section 21;
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(9) ‘Committee’ means the Aqua-culture Seed Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3 and sub-section (1) of section 4;
(10) ‘Container’ means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, wrapper or other thing in which any aqua-culture seeds are placed;
(11) ‘Export’ means taking Aqua-culture seed from India and 3Telangana State to a place outside India and 3Telangana State;
(12) ‘Fisherman’ means a person who is involved in capture fishery activity by occupation and also includes fishermen by birth;
(13) ‘Fish Seed Farm’ means a place with structures for rearing of early stages of fish seed such as spawn or hatchlings to the stages of fry or fingerlings or advanced fingerlings;
(14) ‘Government’ means the State Government of 3Telangana;
(15) ‘Hatchery’ means a place where brooders are maintained and used for production of Aqua-culture seed and further rearing of the seed for supply to Aqua Farmers and this includes back yard hatchery or part of the farm including rearing in nurseries;
(16) ‘Import’ means bringing Aqua-culture seed into India and 3Telangana State from a place outside India and 3Telangana State;
3. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
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(17) ‘kind’ means one or more related species or such species of aquatic animals or aquatic plants each individually or collectively are known by one common name such as Carps, Shrimp, Prawn, Crab, Lobsters, Sea weeds, Aquarium plants etc;
(18) ‘Notification’ means a notification published in the 4Telangana Gazette and the word ‘Notified’ shall be construed accordingly;
(19) ‘Notified kind or variety’ in relation to any Aquaculture seed means any kind or variety thereof notified under section 10;
(20) ‘Prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(21) ‘Quarantine’ means a place of isolation for the purpose of observing animals and or plants suspected of harbouring an infectious disease prior to the introduction of / import of such species to the new environment / country;
(22) ‘Variety’ means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by morphology, growth, yield, seed or other characteristics;
(23) ‘Court’ means any Court not less than 1st Class Munsif Magistrate as notified by the Government for the purpose.
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3. The Government may, as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, constitute a committee called the State Aqua-culture Seed Committee (a) to advise the Government on matters arising out of the administration of
4. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Constitution of State Level Aquaculture Seed Committee.
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(2) The Committee shall consist of the following members namely:-
(i) a Chairman to be nominated by the Government;
(ii) Commissioner of Fisheries / Director of Fisheries shall be the Member Convenor;
(iii) six persons to be nominated by the Government to represent such interests as the Government thinks fit of whom not less than two persons shall be representatives of Aqua Farmers or hatchering operators;
(iv) three persons having knowledge in aqua-culture or working in an organisation connected with it to be nominated by the Government.
(3) The members of the Committee shall, unless their seats become vacant earlier by resignation, death or otherwise be entitled to hold office for a period of two years and shall be eligible for re-nomination not exceeding two terms at a stretch.
(4) The Committee may subject to the previous approval of the Government make bye-laws fixing the quorum and regulating its own procedures and the conduct of all business to be transacted by it.
(5) The Committee may appoint one or more subcommittees consisting wholly of members of the Committee or wholly of other persons or partly of members of the committee and partly of other persons, as it thinks fit, for the purpose of discharging such of its functions as may be 6 [Act No.24 of 2006] delegated to such sub-committee or sub-committees by the Committee.
(6) The functions of the Committee or any such subcommittee thereof may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy therein.
(7) The Government may appoint an officer to be the Secretary of the Committee from the Department of Fisheries, not below the rank of Joint Director of Fisheries and shall provide the Committee with such clerical and other staff as the Government considers necessary.
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