(1) Any ‘Hatchery’ or ‘Fish Seed Farm’ or any person selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, bartering or otherwise supplying any Aqua-culture seed of any notified kind or variety, may if he desires to have such aqua-culture seed certified by the State Aqua-culture Seed Committee, apply to the State Aqua-culture Seed Committee for grant of a certificate for the purpose.
(2) Every application under sub-section (1) shall be made in such form, shall contain such particulars and shall be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed by the Government from time to time.
(3) On receipt of any such application for the grant of a certificate through the District Aqua-culture Seed Committee, the State Aqua-culture Seed Committee may, after such enquiry as it thinks fit and after satisfying itself that the Aqua-culture seed to which the application relates to conforms to the prescribed standards, grant a certificate in such form and on such conditions as may be prescribed:
Provided that such standards shall not be lower than the minimum limits of size, purity and freedom from disease, infections as specified for that Aqua-culture seed under clause (a) of section 11.
Grant of Certificate by State Aquaculture Seed Committee.
Central Act 2 of 1974.
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15. If the State Aqua-culture Seed Committee is satisfied, either on a reference made to it in this behalf or otherwise, that,-
(a) the certificate granted by it under section 14 has been obtained by misrepresentation as to an essential fact;
or
(b) the holder of the certificate has, without reasonable cause, failed to comply with the conditions subject to which the certificate has been granted or has contravened any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, then, without prejudice to any other penalty to which the holder of the certificate may be liable under this Act, the State Aquaculture Seed Committee may, after giving the holder of the certificate an opportunity of showing cause, revoke the certificate.