Registration of insecticides
Section 9 of the Insecticides Act, 1968 deals with registration of insecticides. Any person desiring to import or manufacture any insecticide may apply to the Registration Committee for the registration of such insecticide and there shall be a separate application for each such insecticide: Provided that any person engaged in the business of import or manufacture of any insectic The Act came into force on 01 Mar 1971.
(1) Any person desiring to import or manufacture any insecticide may apply to the Registration Committee for the registration of such insecticide and there shall be a separate application for each such insecticide:
Provided that any person engaged in the business of import or manufacture of any insecticide immediately before the commencement of this section shall make an application to the Registration Committee within a period of1 [seventeen months] from the date of such commencement for the registration of any insecticide which he has been importing or manufacturing before that date:
2 [Provided further that where any person referred to in the preceding proviso fails to make an application under that proviso within the period specified therein, he may make such application at any time thereafter on payment of a penalty of one hundred rupees for every month or part thereof after the expiry of such period for the registration of each such insecticide.]
(2) Every application under sub-section (1) shall be made in such form and contain such particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) On receipt of any such application for the registration of an insecticide, the Committee may, after such enquiry as it deems fit and after satisfying itself that the insecticide to which the application relates conforms to the claims made by the importer or by the manufacturer, as the case may be, as regards the efficacy of the insecticide and its safety to human beings and animals, register 3 [on such conditions as may be specified by it] and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed, the insecticide, allot a registration number thereto and issue a certificate of registration in token thereof within a period of twelve months from the date of receipt of the application:
Provided that the Committee may, if it is unable within the said period to arrive at a decision on the basis of the materials placed before it, extend the period by a further period not exceeding six months:
Provided further that if the Committee is of opinion that the precautions claimed by the applicant as being sufficient to ensure safety to human beings or animals are not such as can be easily observed or that notwithstanding the observance of such precautions the use of the insecticide involves serious risk to human beings or animals, it may refuse to register the insecticide.
4 [(3A) In the case of applications received by it prior to the 31st day of March, 1975, notwithstanding the expiry of the period specified in sub-section (3) for the disposal of such applications, it shall be lawful and shall be deemed always to have been lawful for the Registration Committee to dispose of such applications at any time after such expiry but within a period of one year from the commencement of the Insecticides (Amendment) Act, 1977 (24 of 1977):
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall be deemed to make any contravention before the commencement of the Insecticides (Amendment) Act, 1977 (24 of 1977), of a condition of a certificate of registration granted before such commencement, an offence punishable under this Act.
(3B) Where the Registration Committee is of opinion that the insecticide is being introduced for the first time in India, it may, pending any enquiry, register it provisionally for a period of two years on such conditions as may be specified by it.
(3C) The Registration Committee may, having regard to the efficacy of the insecticide and its safety to human beings and animals, vary the conditions subject to which a certificate of registration has been granted and may for that purpose require the certificate-holder by notice in writing to deliver up the certificate to it within such time as may be specified in the notice.]
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, where an insecticide has been registered on the application of any person, any other person desiring to import or manufacture the insecticide or engaged in the business of, import or manufacture thereof shall on application and on payment of prescribed fee be allotted a registration number and granted a certificate of registration in respect thereof on the same conditions on which the insecticide was originally registered.
Section 9, The Insecticides Act, 1968 (Act 46 of 1968).
Cross-references
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Related judgements & precedents
These are some judgments that construed this section, and hold precedence value. They hold authority on how to read, interpret and use this section.
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Crop Care Federation of India v. Union of India
Court's Decision & Legal Precedent
Final Order order-1.pdf 2019-07-29 DATE VERIFIED. Insecticides Act s.9 registration of insecticides: competitor/association challenge to registration/RC process; court addresses locus and the statutory Registration Committee scheme under ss.5/9 for grant/refusal of registration certificates.
On this section: s.9 registration of insecticides — Registration Committee gateway for RC; competitor challenges must engage that scheme.
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Judgments citing this section
These may be obiter dicta or a precedent, for you to study. These are the judgments where this section is quoted.
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… purposes the authority under the Foreign Trade Act has declared that freedom is attached to import of insecticides (whether it is for insecticidal purposes or for non insecticides purposes). As far as insecticides which are imported for insecticidal purposes are concerned, they would fall under the four corners of Section 9 of the Act. In other words, such insecticides must be registered under the Insecticides Act. As far as insecticides which are intended for non insecticidal purposes, further condition imposed is that the importer must obtain an import permit. 27. We notice the modalities for granting registration/import permit …
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… The petitioner has obtained registrations under the Insecticides Act from the 2 nd respondent for the manufacture of the insecticide by names "D-trans allethrin" and "Transfluthrin". Section 9(4) of the Insecticides Act, enables any person to seek registration for manufacture of the insecticide which is already registered by a previous registrant which is commonly known as "me too" registration. For granting registration under section 9(4), the applicant has to follow the same condition includes same …
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… specified in the Schedule to the said Act, if such substance, is intended for the purposes other than as an insecticide is exempted from the provisions of the said Act and therefore when substances included in the Schedule are imported for use otherwise than as an insecticide, registration is not required under Section 9. Boric acid is included in the Schedule of the Insecticides Act, 1968. If the import of boric acid is for a purpose other than as an insecticide, registration of the same under the Insecticides Act, 1968 is not necessary and exempted from. The petitioners submit that, therefore, the Central Government cannot put …
Made under this section, and citing it
1 instrument states that it was made under this provision — the power to make it comes from here, so a change to any of them changes what this section requires in practice. Newest first.
Another 22 instruments name this provision in its title or its text without being made under it.
- SO 1512 (E) 18.05.2020Notification 2020
- SO 531(E) 03.02.2020Notification 2020
- 09_08_2018 S.O.3951(E)Notification 2018
- 25 April 2018 G.S.R. 399(E)Notification 2018
- G.S.R. 399 (E) 25th April 2018Notification 2018
- G.S.R. 4212 (E) 28th December 2016Notification 2016
- 5_11_2015 GSR 840(E)Notification 2015
- G.S.R. 840 (E) 05th November 2015Notification 2015
- G.S.R. 92 (E) 13 February 2015Notification 2015
- Notification Dated 05 November 2015Notification 2015
- 2 December 2013 S.O.(E) 3554Notification 2013
- 27 September 2013 S.O. 2934 (E)Notification 2013
- 11 October 2011 S.O. 2339 (E)Notification 2011
- 12 October 2011 S.O.(E) 2353Notification 2011
- 26 August 2010 S.O. 2088(E)Notification 2010
- G.S.R. 371 (E) 20th May 1999Notification 1999
- 23 September 1996 S.O. 648 (E)Notification 1996
- 3 November 1995 S.O. 873 (E)Notification 1995
- G.S.R. 533 (E) 06th August 1993Notification 1993
- G.S.R. 1650 (E) 30th October 1971Notification 1971
- Insecticide Rule 1971Rule 1971
- Insecticides Rules, 1971Rule 1971
Questions about Section 9
What have the courts held on Section 9 of the Insecticides Act?
Crop Care Federation of India v. Union of India (29 Jul 2019) is the leading judgment on this section among those set out below: s.9 registration of insecticides — Registration Committee gateway for RC; competitor challenges must engage that scheme.
How do I find court cases under Section 9 of the Insecticides Act?
In judgments and charge sheets this section is written several ways, and each form finds a different set of orders. These search the full text of every order eCourtsIndia holds, best matches first: Insecticides Act 1968 9, section 9 Insecticides Act 1968, section 9 of the Insecticides Act. Each opens the full list of orders on eCourtsIndia, where it can be narrowed by court, year and outcome. 1 reported judgment on this section is set out on this page, beginning with Crop Care Federation of India v. Union of India (29 Jul 2019).
What should I read with Section 9 of the Insecticides Act, and has it changed?
4 other provisions in this corpus refer back to it. The rules and notifications made under it are where it actually bites, and there is one: most recently Labortatory Notification SO 93 06012020 (2020).
When did Section 9 of the Insecticides Act come into force?
Section 9 of the Insecticides Act, cited as Insecticides Act 1968 9, came into force on 01 Mar 1971, having been enacted on 02 Sep 1968. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
Other sections of this Act
- 36. Power of Central Government to make rules798 words
- 3. Definitions710 words
- 4. The Central Insecticides Board591 words
- 22. Procedure to be followed by Insecticide Inspectors555 words
- 29. Offences and punishment437 words
- 21. Powers of Insecticide Inspectors428 words
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