10. (1) Where a registered seed importer or a registered seed cleaner, as Devolution and transfer of the case may be, dies, the following provisions shall have effect: business of registered seed importer or registered seed cleaner (a) the death of the registered seed importer or registered seed cleaner shall not of itself render unlawful the carrying on, during the period of six months from such death, of the business theretofore carried on by the said deceased; (b) the personal representative of the said deceased or, with the consent of such personal representative, any other person shall (subject to the provisions of this section) be entitled, on application to the Certifying Authority in the form and manner prescribed, to be registered as registered seed importer or registered seed cleaner, as the case may be, in respect of the business formerly carried on by the said deceased; (c) where the said deceased has been registered under the provisions of section six, the surviving partner or joint owner, or the nominee of the surviving partners or joint owners, as the case may be, shall (subject to the provisions of this section) be entitled, on application to the Certifying Authority in the form and manner prescribed, to be registered for the purposes of this Act as the registered seed importer or as the registered seed cleaner, as the case may be, in respect of the business formerly registered in the name of the said deceased: Provided, however, that such registration under this paragraph shall be provisional only, until such time as the Certifying Authority is satisfied as to the identity of the person, or persons, actually entitled, in the events which have happened, to the ownership of the said business; whereupon the Certifying Authority may(i) confirm the said provisional registration as full registration, if the person so provisionally registered is entitled to such full registration under this Act; or (ii) may cancel the said provisional registration and register in lieu thereof the person entitled to be so registered in respect of the said business; (d) from the death of the said decreased registered seed importer or

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