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Restriction on business of cleaning agricultural seeds.
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6.—(1) No person shall carry on, otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued to him under this Act, the business of cleaning for commercial purposes agricultural seeds to which this section applies.
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(2) The Minister may, whenever he so thinks fit, by order declare that this section shall apply to any particular class or classes of agricultural seeds, and may at any time by order amend or revoke any such order.
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(3) This section shall apply to every (if any) class of agricultural seeds which is for the time being declared by an order made under the next preceding sub-section of this section to be a class of agricultural seeds to which this section applies, and references in this section and the next following section to agricultural seeds to which this section applies shall be construed accordingly.
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(4) Every person who carries on any business in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds together with a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day during which such offence is continued.
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(5) The following transactions shall not be deemed to be the carrying on of the business of cleaning agricultural seeds within the meaning of this Act, that is to say:—
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(a) the cleaning, by the owner of a threshing mill, of seeds obtained by threshing in such mill where such cleaning is done at the time of or immediately after such threshing, or
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(b) the cleaning, by a farmer on his own premises, of seeds produced by him on land in his own occupation, or
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(c) the cleaning by a farmer on his own premises of seeds bona-fide intended to be sown by him on land in his own occupation.
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