Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SEEDS ACT 1981 - SECT 9

9 .         Claim as to quality

        (1)         Where a seed lot contains a particular crop seed — 

            (a)         in a proportion, by mass, not less than that prescribed for the purpose; and

            (b)         of which the proportion, by count, that is germinable seed is not less than that prescribed for the purpose,

                and the seed lot does not contain seed, other than that particular crop seed, in a proportion, by mass, greater than that prescribed for the purpose, the label or document required by section 7 may, in addition to the statement required by that section, contain a claim that the crop seed is of “select quality”.

        (2)         A person shall not sell any seed lot in a package bearing a label, or accompanied by a document relating to that seed lot, which label or document contains the words “select quality” except in accordance with subsection (1).

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (3)         A person shall not sell any seed lot in a package bearing a label, or accompanied by a document relating to that seed lot, which label or document contains words, other than “select quality”, purporting to favourably describe the quality of the seed lot.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        [Section 9 amended by No. 5 of 1982 s. 3; No. 20 of 1989 s. 3.]