அதிகாரப்பூர்வ மொழிபெயர்ப்புDepartment of Government Printing-இலிருந்து, மாற்றமின்றி
Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-
(1)
by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (j)
thereof, of the following new paragraph:-
“(k) (i) to prevent the import of any tea planting material except under the authority of a Plant Importation Permit issued to the
Director of the Tea Research Institute by the Director General of the
Department of Agriculture under the
Plant Protection Act, No. 35 of 1999
and in the case of export, to issue a phytosanitary certificate on the request of the country of import;
(ii)
For the purpose of this paragraph “ tea planting material” includes any kind of planting material that may be capable of being used directly as propagules including cuttings, shoots, scions, stumps, seeds, in vitro cultures
(micro propagules) or any kind of plant material that can be regenerated to produce plants indirectly, including any form of somatic or reproductive tissue, organ and also germplasm, improved variety, cultivar, wild form of tea from any living portion of any tea plant capable of being used for propagation;”; and
(2)
by renumbering paragraphs (k), (l), (m), (n) and (o)
as paragraphs (l), (m), (n), (o) and (p) of that section.