Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Agriculture” includes horticulture; (b) "Appellate Authority" means Director, Department of Horticulture, Punjab; (c) “certification agency” means the Punjab State Seed Certification Authority or any other such agency as may be notified by the State Government; (d) “Committee” means the Tissue Culture Based Seed Potato Committee constituted under section 3 of this Act; (e) "Licensing Authority" means the Department of Horticulture, Punjab which shall issue the license for seed potato production through tissue culture based aeroponics or nethouse facility in the State of Punjab; (f) “notified variety”, in relation to seed potato, means a variety thereof notified under section 5 of the Seeds Act, 1966; (g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to this Act; (i) “seed potato” means potato minitubers or tubers raised through tissue culture based aeroponics or nethouse technology and its successive field generations used for sowing or planting; (j) ''seed potato grower'' means the Farmer Producer Organisation (FPOs) or Society or group of farmers or seed producing company or individual grower; (k) 'State Government' means the Government of the State of Punjab in the Department of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare; (l) “State Seed Laboratory”, means the State Seed Laboratory established under sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Seeds Act, 1966 or any other laboratory notified as such by the State Government; and (m) "variety" means a sub-division or grouping of plants within the cultivated potato identifiable by growth, yield, plant, fruit, seed or other characteristics.