Agricultural Seeds Act, 1936

Seed cleaning licences.

7.—(1) The Minister may, if he so thinks proper, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, issue to any person a licence (in this Act referred to as a seed cleaning licence) to carry on in specified premises the business of cleaning agricultural seeds to which the next preceding section applies or any particular classes or class of such agricultural seeds, for commercial purposes, and the Minister may attach to any such licence such conditions as he shall think proper and shall specify in such licence.

(2) A seed cleaning licence shall be expressed and shall operate to authorise the person to whom it is issued to carry on, in the premises specified in such licence and under and in accordance with the terms of such licence, the business of cleaning for commercial purposes agricultural seeds to which such licence relates.

(3) The Minister may at any time revoke a seed cleaning licence, but before so revoking any such licence, the Minister shall give not less than seven days' notice in writing of his intention so to revoke such licence to the holder thereof and shall consider any representations made to him by such holder within such seven days.

(4) A notice in pursuance of the next preceding sub-section of this section may be served by delivering it to the holder of such licence or by sending it by post to such holder at any place at which he carries on business under such licence.