Section 38: Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"agricultural seeds" includes cereals, legumes, oil, grass, forage, fibre, root, tuber or any other kind of crop, seed or seedling commonly recognised within Nigeria as agricultural
seed; lawn seed, vegetable seed, forestry seed and seedlings, horticultural seeds and seedlings, ornamental seeds, seed mixtures and all planting materials as the Minister may designate from time to time;
"seed laboratory" means a central seed laboratory designated as such under section 23 of this Act;
"certified seed" means any prescribed seed which is certified under the provisions of this Act;
"container" means a box, casket, tin, barrel, tank, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper or other thing in which any article or thing is placed or packed;
"Council" means the National Agricultural Seed Council established by section 1 of this Act;
''labelling'' means any label or other written, printed or graphical representation, in any form, accompanying and pertaining to seed whether in bulk or in container;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for agriculture and
"Ministry" shall be construed accordingly;
"export" means taking out of Nigeria to a place outside Nigeria;
"import" means bringing into Nigeria from a place outside Nigeria;
"notified kind of variety" in relation to any seed means any kind of seed or variety thereof notified under this Act;
"seed importer" means any person who, either exclusively or in conjunction with any other trade or business, imports seeds into Nigeria for resale;
"seed inspector" means the person appointed as seed inspector pursuant to section 25 of this Act;
"seed producer" means any person who either exclusively or in conjunction with any other trade or business, produces seeds for sale;
"seed seller" means any person who, either exclusively or in conjunction with any other person, trade or business, sells seeds for growing to Nigerian farmers;
"sell" includes to exchange or to offer, advertise, keep, expose, transmit, convey or deliver in pursuance of a sale, exchange or barter;
"unit" means the National Seed Service Unit established by section 5 of this Act;
"variety" means a sub-division of any crop specie which can be differentiated from other sub-division of that kind of growth, plant, fruit or other characteristics and any uniform group which can be a first generation hybrid (FI) or a plant population reconstituted on each occasion by crossing two or more breeding stock maintained by inbreeding or population maintained;
"weed seed" includes the seed of all plants included as weeds or listed as weeds in the seed regulations or commonly recognised as weeds in Nigeria.