An Act to provide for the regulation and control of the production, sale and import of seed for sowing and of the export of seed, and to provide for the testing and for minimum standards of germination and purity thereof, and further to provide for the certification of seed and for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing. [1st December, 1968] PART I PRELIMINARY 1. This Act may be cited as the Plant Variety and Seeds Act. Short title (As amended by Act No. 21 of 1995) 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"aggrieved party" means any person whose application for registration under Part II has been refused or made subject to any condition by the Certifying Authority, or any person who had been registered under Part II and whose registration has been cancelled by the Certifying Authority; "authorised officer" means an officer appointed under section three. "certified seed" means any prescribed seed which is certified under the provisions of Part VIII; "contract of sale" includes an agreement to sell; "Certifying Agency" means any seed company or institution licenced as a seed testing station under Part II. "Certifying Authority" means the person designated as such in pursuance of the provisions of section three; "court" means a subordinate court, save where otherwise appears; Interpretation