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Andhra Pradesh Registration of Horticulture Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2010
Andhra Pradesh Registration of Horticulture Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2010
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Appointment of competent authorities.
Section 34. Owner of a Horticulture Nursery to obtain licence.
Section 45. Application for grant and renewal of licence.
Section 56. Duties of holder of licence.
Section 67. Plant material to be utilized for propagation.
Section 78. Power of Government to regulate or prohibit import, export or transport of certain horticulture plants.
Section 89. Powers to cancel or suspend Licence.
Section 910. Return of Licence.
Section 1011. Issue of duplicate Licence.
Section 1112. Appeals.
Section 1213. Appellate authority.
Section 1314. Revision.
Section 1415. Power of entry and inspection of nurseries.
Section 1516. Penalties.
Section 1617. Offences by Horticulture nurseries, companies or firm.
Section 1718. Cognizance of Offences.
Section 1819. Jurisdiction of Court.
Section 1920. Officers and persons, exercising power under this Act to be public servants.
Section 2021. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 2122. Delegation of powers.
Section 2223. Power to make rules.
Section 23
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"content": "(a) \"Competent Authority\" means a competent authority appointed under section 3;\n(b) \"Director\" means the Commissioner and Director of Horticulture, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad;\n(c) \"Export\" means taking out the plant material out of the State or out of India by land, sea or air;\n(d) \"Government\" means the State Government of Andhra Pradesh;\n(e) \"Horticulture\" includes fruits, vegetables, tubers, spices, condiments, flowers ornamental, medicinal and aromatic crops and plantation crops;\n(f) \"Horticulture nursery\" means any place where horticulture plants, fruits, vegetables and flowers are in the regular course of business, propagated and sold for transplantation;\n(g) \"Horticulture Plant\" means a plant belonging to any of the categories of aromatic plant, flower plant, fruit plant, plantation crops, vegetable plant or such other plant as the Government may by notification declare to be a horticulture plant;\n(h) \"Import\" means bringing the plant material from outside the State or from other countries for further propagation.\n(i) \"Inspecting Officer\" means any officer not below the rank of Horticulture officer authorised by the Director of Horticulture for the purpose of Inspection of Nurseries;\n(j) \"Kind\" means one or more related species or subspecies of crop plants each individually or collectively known by one common name such as mango, tomato, rose, coconut etc.\n(k) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette and the word \"notified\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(1) \"Nurseryman\" means any person engaged in the production, display or sale of Horticulture plants;\n(m) \"Owner\" means any person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of a Horticulture Nursery, and includes a manager, managing director, managing partner, or managing agent of a society, association or company, to whom the said affairs are entrusted;\n(n) \"Plantation crops\" means crops that are grown extensively like cashew, coconut, cocoa, coffee and includes nuts seeds/ seedlings, grafts, cuttings;\n(o) \"Plant material\" means any propagation material used in raising the plants and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, seeds, cuttings, rhizomes, bulbs, suckers, runners etc.,\n(p) \"Prescribed\" means, prescribed by rules made by the Government under this Act; (q) \"Root stock\" means, a Horticulture plant or part thereof on which any portion of a horticulture plant is to be grafted or budded;\n(r) \"Sale\" means, a sale of Plant made within the State or outside the State for cash or other valuable consideration;\n(s) \"Scion\" means a portion of a Horticulture plant which is to be grafted or budded on to a root-stock;\n(t) \"Variety\" means a taxonomic sub-division of a species consisting of naturally occurring or selectively bred populations or individuals that differ from the remainder of the species in certain minor but heritable characteristics.",
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"content": "(a) undertake to multiply only such varieties of the horticulture plants specified in the licence in respect of scion or root stock, for propagation and sale as may be directed by the competent authority;\n(b) keep a complete record of the origin or source of every root- stock and every scion in such form as may be prescribed showing, -\n(i) the botanical name, together with local name, if any, of the root stock used;\n(ii) the botanical name, together with the local name, if any, of the scion used in raising the Horticulture plants;\n(iii) display a board in local language showing the plant stock position and price structure at the entrance of the nursery;\n(iv) display the board with green colour back ground and white labelling.\n(c) keep a lay out plan showing the variety of root stock and scion trees raised in the nursery;\n(d) keep the nursery plants as well as the parent trees used for the propagation of Horticulture plants free from pests and diseases and maintain the quality standards as prescribed by National Horticulture Board, Government of India or State Horticulture Board;\n(e) undertake to grow the Horticulture plants in such manner as may be directed by the competent authority;\n(f) all Horticulture plants intended for sale shall have a conspicuous label shall specifying the name of the variety of Horticulture plant, it's age and the name of the root stock;\n(g) maintain a register in such form as may be prescribed, showing the name of the Horticulture plant sold to any person, its age, the name of the root stock and scion, bud wood and the name and the address of the person purchasing it, and shall produce the record for inspection on demand by the Director or Inspecting officer;\n(h) exhibit the rates charged by him for each of the nursery plants sold by him at a conspicuous place in the nursery;\n(i) maintain a Bill Book and issue sale bill containing Book number, machine numbered bill, showing species, variety name, quantity and sale rate in the nursery or by the trader;\n(j) the nursery register shall be preserved by the nurseryman for at least five years after the date of conclusion of the transaction;\n(k) undertake to release for sale or distribution only such Horticulture plants as are completely free from any kind of pests or disease;\n(l) keep the plants as well as the progeny trees used for the production of nursery plants free from any kind of pests and disease;\n(m) maintain a register in such form as may be prescribed, giving the details of the plant protection measures undertaken; (n) submit annual statement for each financial year in such form as may be prescribed by the Commissioner and Director of Horticulture by 15lh April of every year;\n(o) the price structure and quality standards as prescribed by the Commissioner and Director of Horticulture from time to time shall be followed by the licensee for producing and sale of the plant material; and\n(p) the Nursery man or trader has to give intimation to the Committee to be constituted by the Commissioner and Director of Horticulture from time to time, having jurisdiction over the nursery to certify the quality of plant material, if any plant material is procured from out side the State. The certificate from the committee of the district has to be obtained for every consignment to the effect that plant material procured from the nurseries out side the State is free from pests and diseases.",
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"content": "(a) the varieties of scions and rootstocks produced and used in the nursery shall be approved by the State Horticulture Department or the Andhra Pradesh Horticulture University from time to time;\n(b) the vegetatively propagated plant material shall be in direct proportion to the availability of roots stock (vegetatively propagated, if any) and scion wood with the nursery-man;\n(c) the nursery-man shall maintain a map showing the details of the field beds and the kinds of varieties of plants in each bed. This shall apply to the seedlings as well as budded and grafted plant material;\n(d) the nursery man shall maintain the register in such form as may be prescribed wherein the performance of the progeny trees shall be recorded along with number of plants raised and number of plants ready for sale;\n(e) the competent authority may declare mother trees as unfit for use, if he is satisfied that use of such plant material shall affect the interest of Horticulture on account of the following reasons,-\n(i) poor quality of horticulture product;\n(ii) poor bearing capacity;\n(iii) infected with insects, pests and disease which cannot be cured;\n(iv) horticulture plants of unknown pedigree;\n(v) any other reasons which may be considered fit by the competent authority in the interest of horticulture.\n(f) the nursery man shall quarantine all trees and shall not use their bud wood for further propagation in any case should there be a danger of the spread of the insects, pests and diseases to other nurseries and nursery plants and such infected trees may be ordered by the competent authority to be destroyed and the nursery shall carry out those orders. Such orders shall also be applicable to the supply of planting material.",
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"content": "(a) that he has parted in whole or in part, with his control over the Horticulture nursery or has otherwise ceased to maintain or hold such horticulture nursery;\n(b) that he has, without reasonable cause, failed to comply with any of the terms and conditions of the licence or any direction lawfully given by the competent authority or has contravened any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder;\n(c) if the licensee applied for adjudication or been adjudicated and declared insolvent;\n(d) if in the opinion of such competent authority, the licensee has become incompetent to maintain or hold such horticulture nursery;\n(e) if he has refused to surrender or produce his licence or the registers and other records required to be maintained under this Act or the rules made thereunder to the competent authority or any person authorized by it; and\n(f) on any other substantial ground as may be prescribed.",
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"content": "(a) to enter into any Horticulture nursery and to inspect or examine the Horticulture Plants therein;\n(b) to order the production of any account books, register, record or other documents relating to such nursery and under proper receipt take or cause to be taken extracts from or copies of such document;\n(c) to ask all necessary questions and examine any person having control of, or employed in connection with such nursery.",
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"content": "(a) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act, or any rule made thereunder; or\n(b) obstructs any officer or person in the exercise of any powers conferred or in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by or under this Act, shall on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend upto Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty thousand only) or with imprisonment for a term which may extend upto one year or with both.",
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