(1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this Act shall immediately after it is made, be laid before each House of the State Legislature if it is in session and if it is not in session in the session immediately following for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two Forfeiture of property.
Power to give directions.
Exemption.
Power to make rules.
[Act No.29 of 2007] 11 successive sessions, and if, before the expiration of the session in which, it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall, from the date on which the modification or annulment is notified in the 4Telangana Gazette, have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled, as the case may be, so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
21. The Explanatory Statement to this Act shall constitute the guidelines for the interpretation and implementation of this Act.
22. The Andhra Pradesh Cotton Seeds (Regulation of Supply, Distribution, Sale and Fixation of Sale Price) Ordinance, 2007 is hereby repealed.
4. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Guidelines for interpretation of Act.
Repeal of Ordinance No.4 of
2007.
12 [Act No.29 of 2007] EXPLANATORY STATEMENT The provisions of the Seeds Act, 1966 (Central Act 54 of 66) in its application to the State of Andhra Pradesh regulate the quality of seed in respect of notified varieties.
For the past few years, in view of substantial change of pattern of agriculture particularly in usage of seed, the said provisions are found to be inadequate for enforcement in respect of quality of cotton seed and regulation of trade of non-notified cotton varieties, research hybrid varieties etc., as a result the entire economy of farmers is affected.
By the recent amendment of Essential Commodities Act, 1955, cotton seed is deleted from the Schedule of the Act. The Environmental Protection Act, 1986, the Rules, 1986 and the Rules for Manufacture, Use/Import/Export and Storage of Hazardous Micro Organisms/Genetically Engineered Organism or Cells, 1989 deals with only biosafety aspects of transgenic cotton seed. The traders who are dealing in cottonseed including transgenic cotton seed have been resorting to dubious methods and exploitation of poor farmers, particularly in respect of scarce type of cotton seed, causing unjustified burden towards seed cost which is essential and vital input in the process of agriculture, which lead the several farmers into debt trap, and sometimes leading to suicides also. The multinational companies are taking undue advantage of their monopoly in respect of scarce type of cotton seed.
Article 39 (b) of the Constitution of India enjoins the State to make suitable statutory prescriptions, so as to make available the commodities essential to the citizens at fair price. Therefore, in the interest of farming fraternity and to have free flow of supply, equi-distribution and price of all kinds of cotton seeds including transgenic cotton seeds and to protect the farmers economy, it is expedient and necessary that there is every need to bring a Cotton Seed [Act No.29 of 2007] 13 Regulation law in consonance with National Seed Policy,
2002.
Salient features of Act:
To constitute and appoint a Controller at the State level;
To notify the seed testing laboratories;
To curtail the supply of spurious or inferior quality of seed;
To evolve an effective regulatory system which will enable effective quality assurance, supply, distribution and at fair price;
To provide punishments in the event of violations of the provisions of the Act;
To provide adequate mechanism to pay compensation to the farmers in the event of supply of inferior quality of cotton seed;
To bring regulatory mechanism for regulation of trade of transgenic and genetically modified varieties by way of compulsory DNA Finger printing tests or genetic purity test.
Mandatory registration of all types of cotton seed produced in the State or imported to the State.
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