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The Andhra Pradesh Aquaculture Seed (Quality Control) Act, 2006
The Andhra Pradesh Aquaculture Seed (Quality Control) Act, 2006
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution of State Level Aquaculture Seed Committee.
Section 34. Constitution of District Level Aquaculture Seed Committee.
Section 45. Other Committees.
Section 56. Proceedings of District Committee not to be invalid by reason of any vacancy therein.
Section 67. Procedure for District Committee.
Section 78. Secretary and Other Officers.
Section 89. Establishment of Aquaculture Seed Laboratory.
Section 910. Powers to notify kinds or varieties of Aquaculture seeds.
Section 1011. Powers to specify size, purity and freedom from disease, infections of Aquaculture seed.
Section 1112. Regulation of sale of Aquaculture seeds of notified kinds or varieties.
Section 1213. Powers of Aquaculture Seed Inspector.
Section 1314. Grant of certificate by State Aquaculture Seed Committee.
Section 1415. Revocation of Certificate.
Section 1516. Procedure to be followed by Aquaculture Seed Inspector.
Section 1617. Report of Aqua-Culture Seed Analyst.
Section 1718. Restriction on export and import of Aquaculture seed of notified kinds or varieties.
Section 1819. Recognition of Aquaculture seed certification agencies of foreign countries.
Section 1920. Aquaculture Seed Analysts.
Section 2021. Aquaculture Seed Inspectors.
Section 2122. Penalty.
Section 2223. Forfeiture of property.
Section 2324. Offences by Companies.
Section 2425. Appeal.
Section 2526. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 2627. Persons acting under this Act to be Public Servants.
Section 2728. Exemption.
Section 2829. Power to make rules.
Section 29
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"content": "(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;\n(2) \"Aqua Farm\" means a place with water body used for Aqua-culture;\n(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;\n(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,-\n(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,\n(ii) seeds of shell fish, such as prawn, shrimp, lobsters, crab, gastropods, bivalves and such other crustaceans and mollusees;\n(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, megalopa mysis, post larvae) and larval stages of mollusces (called veliger, spat etc.);\n(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;\n(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;\n(7) \"Aqua-culture Seed Analyst\" means an Aqua-culture Seed Analyst appointed under section 20;\n(8) \"Aqua-Culture Seed Inspector\" means an Aqua-culture Seed Inspector appointed under section 21;\n(9) \"Committee\" means the Aqua-culture Seed Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3; and sub-section (1) of section 4.\n(10) \"Container\" means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, wrapper or other thing in which any aqua-culture seeds are placed;\n(11) \"Export\" means taking Aqua-culture seed from India and Andhra Pradesh State to a place outside India and Andhra Pradesh State;\n(12) \"Fisherman\" means a person who is involved in capture fishery activity by occupation and also includes fishermen by birth;\n(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;\n(14) \"Government\" means the State Government of Andhra Pradesh;\n(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.\n(16) \"Import\" means bringing Aqua-culture seed into India and Andhra Pradesh State from a place outside India and Andhra Pradesh State;\n(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;\n(18) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazettee and the word \"Notified\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(19) \"Prescribed\" in relation to any Aquaculture seed means any kind or variety thereof notified under section-10;\n(20) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(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;\n(22) \"Variety\" means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by morphology, growth, yield, seed or other characteristics;\n(23) \"Court\" means any Court not less than Ist Class Munsif Magistrate as notified by the Government for the purpose.\nChapter - II",
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"title": "3. Constitution of State Level Aquaculture Seed Committee.",
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"content": "(i) a chairman to be nominated by the Government;\n(ii) Commissioner of Fisheries / Director of Fisheries shall be the Member Convenor;\n(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;\n(iv) three persons having knowledge in aqua-culture or working in an organisation connected with it to be nominated by the Government.\nChapter - III",
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"title": "4. Constitution of District Level Aquaculture Seed Committee.",
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"content": "(i) the District Collector will be the Chairman of the District Committee;\n(ii) a nominee of Commissioner of Fisheries / Director of Fisheries shall be a Member;\n(iii) one member not below the rank of District Officer of fisheries department of the concerned district;\n(iv) two members, to be nominated by the Government from out of the persons employed by the Marine Products Export Development Authority or Sri Venkateswara Vetarinary University not below the rank of Associate Professors;\n(v) four persons, to be nominated by the Government to represent such interests as it thinks fit of whom not less than two persons shall be representatives of Hatcheries and Aqua farmers.",
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"content": "(i) appoint an Officer of the Fisheries Department not below the rank of Assistant Director of the concerned district as Member Secretary of the District Committee; and\n(ii) provide the District Committee with such technical and other staff as the Government considers necessary.\nChapter - IV",
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"title": "10. Powers to notify kinds or varieties of Aquaculture seeds.",
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"content": "(a) the minimum limits of size, purity and freedom from disease infections of aqua-culture seed with respect to any aquaculture seed of any notified kind or variety;\n(b) the mark or label to indicate that such Aqua-culture seed confirms to the minimum limits of size, purity, source of seed and freedom from disease, infections specified under clause\n(a) and the particulars as may be specified from time to time by Government which such mark of label may contain.",
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"content": "(a) such aqua-culture seed identifiable as to its kind or variety;\n(b) such aqua-culture conforms to the minimum limits of size, purity and freedom from disease, infections specified under clause (a) of section 11;\n(c) such aqua - culture seed conforms to the standards for quarantine measures, as may be prescribed from time to time;\n(d) the container of such Aqua-culture seed bears in the prescribed manner, the mark or label containing the correct particulars thereof, specified under clause (b) of section 11; and\n(e) he complies with other requirements as may be prescribed.",
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"content": "(a) enter and search the premises of hatcheries and fish seed farms at all reasonable times, with such assistance, if any, as he considers necessary, any place in which he has reason to believe that an offence under this Act has been or is being committed and order in writing the person in possession of any seed in respect of which the offence has been or is being committed, not to dispose of any stock of such aqua-culture seed for a specific period not exceeding thirty days or, unless the alleged offence is such that the defect may be removed by the possessor of the aqua-culture seed, restrict the stock of such aqua-culture seed from being sold;\n(b) take samples of any aqua-culture seed of any notified kind or variety from,-\n(i) any `Hatchery' or `Fish Seed Farm' or any person selling or offering to sell such aqua-culture seed; or\n(ii) any person who is in the course of conveying or delivering or preparing to deliver such aqua-culture seed to a purchaser or a consignee; or\n(iii) a purchaser or a consignee after delivery of such aquaculture seed to him.,\n(c) send such sample for analysis to the aqua-culture seed analyst for the area within which such sample has been taken;\n(d) examine any record, register, document or any other material object found in any place mentioned in clause (a) and seize the same if he has any reason to believe that it may provide evidence of the commission of an offence punishable under this Act; and\n(e) exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act or any rule made thereunder.",
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"title": "14. Grant of certificate by State Aquaculture Seed Committee.",
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"title": "15. Revocation of Certificate.",
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"content": "(a) the certificate granted by it under section 14 has been obtained by misrepresentation as to an essential fact; or\n(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 Aqua-culture Seed Committee may, after giving the holder of the certificate an opportunity of showing cause, revoke the certificate.",
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"content": "(a) give notice in writing, then and there, of such intention to the person from whom he intends to take sample;\n(b) except in special cases provided by rules made under this Act, take three representative samples in the prescribed manner and mark and seal or fasten up each sample in such manner as its nature permits.\n(a) deliver one sample to the person from whom it has been taken;\n(b) send in the prescribed manner another sample, for analysis to the Aqua-culture Seed Analyst for the area within which such sample has been taken; and\n(c) send the remaining sample in the prescribed manner to the State Aqua-culture Seed Laboratory for analysis as and when required under sub-section (2) of section 17.\n(a) he shall use all despatch in ascertaining whether or not the seed contravenes any of the provisions of section 12 and if it is ascertained that the seed does not so contravene, forthwith revoke the order passed under the said clause or as the case may be, take such action as may be necessary for the return of the stock of the seed seized;\n(b) if he seizes the stock of the seed, he shall, as soon as may be, inform a Court and take its order as to the custody thereof;\n(c) without prejudice to the institution of any prosecution, if the alleged offence is such that the defect may be removed by the possessor of the seed, he shall on being satisfied that the defect has been so rectified, forthwith revoke the order passed under the said clause.",
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"number": "17",
"title": "17. Report of Aqua-Culture Seed Analyst.",
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"number": "18",
"title": "18. Restriction on export and import of Aquaculture seed of notified kinds or varieties.",
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"content": "(a) it confirms to the minimum limits of size, purity and freedom from disease, infections specified for that Aqua-culture seed under clause (a) of section 11; and\n(b) its container bears, in the prescribed manner, the mark or label with the correct particulars thereof specified for that Aqua-culture seed under clause (b) of section 11.",
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"number": "19",
"title": "19. Recognition of Aquaculture seed certification agencies of foreign countries.",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Aquaculture Seed Analysts.",
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"number": "21",
"title": "21. Aquaculture Seed Inspectors.",
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"number": "22",
"title": "22. Penalty.",
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"content": "(a) contravenes any provision of this Act or any rule made thereunder; or\n(b) prevents an Aqua-culture Seed Inspector from taking sample under this Act; or\n(c) prevents an Aqua-culture Seed Inspector from exercising any other power conferred on him by or under this Act, shall, on conviction, be punishable,-\n(i) for the first offence with fine which may extend to minimum of five thousand rupees; and\n(ii) in the event of such person having been previously convicted of an offence under this section, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to minimum of six months or with fine which may extend to minimum of ten thousand rupees or with both.",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Forfeiture of property.",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. Offences by Companies.",
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"content": "Explanation:\n(a) `Company' means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) `Director' in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.\nChapter - VIII",
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"title": "25. Appeal.",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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"number": "27",
"title": "27. Persons acting under this Act to be Public Servants.",
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"number": "28",
"title": "28. Exemption.",
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"number": "29",
"title": "29. Power to make rules.",
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"content": "(a) the functions of the members of State Aqua-culture Seed Committee and District Aqua-culture Seed Committees and the travelling and daily allowances payable to members of the Committees and members of any Sub-committee appointed under sub-section (5) of section 3 and section 5;\n(b) the functions of the Aqua-culture Seed Laboratory;\n(c) the functions of State Aqua-culture Seed Committee and District Aqua-culture Seed Committee;\n(d) the manner of marking or labelling the container of Aqua-culture seed of any notified kind or variety under clause (d) of section 12 and under clause (b) of section 18;\n(e) the requirements which may be complied with by person carrying on the business referred to in section 12;\n(f) the form of application for the grant of a certification under section 14, the particulars it may contain, the fees which should accompany it, the form of the certificate and the conditions subject to which the certificate may be granted;\n(g) the standards to which Aqua-culture seeds should confirm;\n(h) the form and manner in which and the fee on payment of which an appeal may be preferred under section 25 and the procedure to be followed by the Appellate Authority in disposing of the appeal;\n(i) the qualifications and duties of Aqua-culture Seed Analysts and Aqua-culture Seed Inspector;\n(j) the manner in which samples may be taken by the Aquaculture Seed Inspector, the procedure for sending such samples to the Aqua-culture Seed Analyst or the Aqua-culture Seed Laboratory and the manner of analysing such samples;\n(k) the form of report of the result of the analysis under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 17 and the fees payable in respect of such report under the said sub-section (2);\n(l) the records to be maintained by a person carrying on the business referred to in section 12 and the particulars which such records shall contain;\n(m) issue of licences to `Hatcheries, `Fish Seed Farms';\n(n) safeguarding brood fish or prawn or any parent stock of Aquatic animals or plants; and\n(o) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed.",
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"Act Number": "(Act No. 24 of 2006)",
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"Act Year": "2006",
"Short Title": "The Andhra Pradesh Aquaculture Seed (Quality Control) Act, 2006",
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