- The Seeds and Plant Varieties (Seeds)Regulations
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- Citation
- Interpretation
- Prescribed Seeds
- Seed Testing Station
- Seed Regulation Committee
- Seed Allocation Panel Sub-Committee
- Application for Consideration as Seed Grower
- Registration of Seed Growers
- Registration of Seed Merchant
- Seed Certification
- Seed Inspection
- Seed Processing
- Seed Sampling
- Seed Testing
- Packing, Labelling and Sealing
- Validity Certification and Quality Declaration
- Seed Sale
- Seed Sellers
- Post Control Plots
- Seed Importation and Exportation
- Appeals
- Offences and Penalties
- Protection from Liability in Certain Cases
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- REPUBLIC OF KENYANATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
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- Application for Field Inspection of a Seed Crop—
- FARM MAP AND LOCATION
- REPUBLIC OF KENYA
- NATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
- form SR 6aSIXTH SCHEDULE—\(Contd.\) \(r. 11 \
- REPUBLIC OF KENYA
- NATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
- Form SR 7SIXTH SCHEDULE—\(Contd.\)\(r. 11 \(
- REPUBLIC OF KENYA
- NATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
- Form SR 8SIXTH SCHEDULE—\(contd.\)\(r. 14 \(
- REPUBLIC OF KENYA
- NATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
- WORK ORDER FOR
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- REPUBLIC OF KENYANATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
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- PURITY/GERMINATION/MOISTURE/INJURIOUS WEEDS/DISEASE/ PESTS
- Form SR 10aSIXTH SCHEDULE—\(Contd.\)\(r. 14 \
- REPUBLIC OF KENYA
- NATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICEOFFICIAL SEED TESTING STATION
- Form SR 10bSIXTH SCHEDULE—\(Contd.\) \(r. 14
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- NATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICEOFFICIAL SEED TESTING STATION
- Form SR 11SIXTH SCHEDULE—\(Contd.\)\(r. 15 \
- REPUBLIC OF KENYANATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
- Form SR 12SIXTH SCHEDULE—\(Contd.\)\(r. 18 \
- REPUBLIC OF KENYANATIONAL SEED QUALITY CONTROL SERVICE
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- P.O. Box 1679, NAKURU
- Weight in kg.
- P.O. Box 30028, NAIROBI
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The Seeds and Plant Varieties (Seeds) (Subsidiary Legislation)
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“basic seed” means a mixture of two or more seed lots of the same cultivar of different origin into one composite bulk;
“breeder’s seed” means seed which has been produced by a person or institution responsible for the maintenance of the cultivar;
“certified seed” means progeny of basic seed or certified seed of higher classes;
“cultivar” means a subdivision of any seed species which can be distinguished from other subdivisions of that species by means of growth, plant type, flower or other physiological characteristics;
“compulsory certification” means mandatory certification for those cultivars that have been tested in National Performance Trial, officially released and indexed;
“Director” means the director of the National Seed Quality Control Service;
“dressing” means a stage of seed processing where application of chemical substances on the surfaces of seeds is done for the purposes of controlling pests or diseases;
“field inspection” means an examination of a crop seed field including checking for effective isolation distance, hectarage of the seed field, off-types, foreign cultivar and diseased plants as part of the seed certification programme;
“Government certified seed” means seeds in respect of which a certificate has been issued in accordance with these Regulations;
“germinated seeds” means lots in respect of which in the course of germination tests have produced seedlings with normal growth characteristics of the shoot and root systems;
“Government tested seeds” means seed lots tested in accordance with these Regulations
“isolation” means the required distance or time between two crops of the same species or between two crops of too closely related species to prevent contamination either mechanically or by pollination;
“labelling” means the process of affixing a tag or identification mark so as to ensure correct identification of any container of seed;
“licensed seed seller” means any person or institution licensed to sell Government tested and certified seeds only;
“noxious weeds” means a plant declared to be a noxious weed under section 3 of the Suppression of Noxious Weeds Act;
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“off-type plant” means a plant which does not exhibit the recognized and prescribed growth habits and characteristics of the cultivar being grown;
“official seed tester” means an officer designated to be an official seed tester by the authorized officer;
“official seed sample” means a seed sample taken in accordance with these Regulations; “parental material” means the propagating material from which the breeder’s seed is raised; “post control” means the growing of plants from seed lots which have been certified to further
determine and confirm cultivar purity and freedom from disease infection;
“pre-basic” means progeny of breeder’s seed;
“private sample” means any sample submitted to the seed testing laboratory other than the
official sample;
“purity” means the percentage by weight of pure seeds as determined by purity analysis in the seed laboratory;
“pure germinating seed” means the proportion of pure seed in a seed lot capable of
germinating into normal seedlings under optimal germination conditions;
“records” means any records required to be kept under these Regulations;
“registered seed grower” means a person or institution officially recognized by the authorized
officer and the Seed allocation panel as suitable to grow seed crops;
“registered seed merchant” means a person or firm or institution officially recognized by the Seed Committee as suitable to produce, process or sell seed;
“sealing” means the stage in processing whereby a seed container is sealed to prevent any tampering;
“seed” means that part of the crop species which is used for propagation either as a seed in botanical sense which is developed from a fertilized ovule, or a seedling, or some other parts such as a corm, cutting, bulb, root scion, set, split, tuber or stem, which is not a seed in a botanical sense
and which is used for vegetative propagation;
“seed analyst” means a suitably qualified person on the staff of an official testing station;
“seed class” means a stage in a seed multiplication system well defined in respect of parental
seed standards of cultivation and seed quality;
“seed health” means the degree of freedom from seed borne diseases and pests;
“seed crop” means a crop that is grown for the specific purpose of producing seed;
“seed industry” means the entire chain linked stages that start with breeding and crop
improvement through seed multiplication, processing, certification and ends with seed distribution;
“seed inspector” means a suitably qualified person on the staff of the official inspection station;
“seed lot” means a specified quantity of seed which measures to prescribed maximum weight and which is represented by one sample in laboratory seed testing or in post control plots, and is homogeneous and physically identifiable by a unique reference number;
“seed processing” means all those treatments that the seed is subjected to other than testing, between harvesting and sale;
“seed production” means all the operations leading up to and including final harvesting of the seed from the seed crop field;
“seed quality” means seed lots that have met the minimum standards and hence are of high cultivar purity, high genetic and physical purity, are free from noxious weeds, seed borne diseases and pests and have germination capacity;
“seed testing” means the examination of a sample of seed with a view to determining its quality for the purpose of producing a specific commercial crop;
“seed testing laboratory” means a laboratory for the testing of seed declared by notice in the Gazette to be a seed testing laboratory in accordance with the provisions of the Act;
“standard” means the level of quality achieved during field inspection or a laboratory test as defined in these Regulations;
“standard seed” means seed that is marketed after standards have been relaxed on account of emergency or disaster so that such seed is subjected only to laboratory tests and post control observation;
“storage” means a stage of seed processing in which seed is maintained in a condition such that minimum deterioration of seed lots occur;
“technical grounds” means grounds for appeal in cases of rejection in hybrid seed production where an inspector did not consider all the factors of the seed crop prior to rejecting the crop;
“test report” means a seed testing laboratory report made on a private sample and on official seed sample;
“tested seed” means a sample of an official seed lot in respect of which these are valid laboratory test certificates;
“Tribunal” means the Seeds and Plants Tribunal established under section 28 of the Act;
“weed” means any plant of type or species different from a crop species growing in or near a registered seed crop so as to constitute a threat to the registered seed crop or the seed produced from it.
3. The seeds of the plant species set out in the First Schedule shall be the prescribed seeds for the purposes of the Act.
Seed Testing Station
4. The National Seed Quality Control Service established under section 11 of the Act shall be the official seed testing station.
5.—(1) There shall be a committee to be known as the Seed Regulation Committee, which shall consist of— 6.—(1) There shall be a Sub-Committee of the Seeds Regulations Committee to be known as the Seed Growers Allocation Panel which shall consist of— Application for Consideration as Seed Grower
7.—(1) Any person, grower, institution or seed merchant wishing to be considered as a seed grower shall apply in writing to the secretary of the Seed Growers Allocation Panel. Registration of Seed Growers
8.—(1) Successful applicants under regulation 7 shall be eligible for registration as seed growers on completing Form SR 1 in the Sixth Schedule and payment of the fee prescribed in the Fifth Schedule. Registration of Seed Merchant
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Regulations
First Schedule
Second Schedule
Third Schedule
Fourth Schedule
Fifth Schedule
Sixth Schedule
Prescribed Seeds
Seed Regulation Committee
Seed Allocation Panel Sub-Committee