Krishinet, Madhya Pradesh

Short title, extent and commencement
Application of other laws not barred
Definitions
The Central Insecticides board
Registration Committee
Other Committees
Procedure for Board
Secretary and other officers
Registration of Insecticides
Appeal against non-registration or cancellation
Power of revision of Central Government
Licensing Officers
Grant of license
Revocation, suspension and amendment of licenses
Appeal against the decision of a licensing officer
Central Insecticides Laboratory
Prohibition of import and manufacture of certain insecticides
Prohibition of sale, etc. of certain insecticides
Insecticide analysts
Insecticide Inspectors
Powers of insecticide inspectors
Procedure to be followed by Insecticide Inspectors
Persons bound to disclose place where Insecticides are manufactured or kept
Report of insecticide analyst
Confiscation
Notification of poisoning
Prohibition of sale, etc. of insecticide for reasons of public safety
Notification of cancellation of registration etc.
Offences and punishment
Defense which may or may not be allowed in prosecutions under this act
Cognizance and trial of offences
Magistrates power to impose enhanced penalties
Offences by companies
Power of the Central government to give directions
Protection of action taken in good faith
Power of the Central Government to make rules
Power of the State government to make rules
Exemption

INSECTICIDES ACT, 1968
(46 of 1968)

An Act to regulate the import, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides with a view to prevent risk to human beings or animals, and for attars connected therewith

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:

1. Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Insecticides Act, 1968.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different states and for different provisions of this Act.

2. Application of other laws not barred

The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other law for the time being in force.

3. Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(a) animals means animals useful to human beings and include fish and fowl, and such kinds of wild life as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, being kinds which in its opinion, it is desirable to protect or preserve;

(b) Board means the Central Insecticides Board constituted under section 4;

(c)  Central Insecticides Laboratory means the central Insecticides Laboratory established, or as the case may be, the institution specified under section 16;

(d) import means bringing into any place within the territories to which this Act extends from a place outside those territories;

(e) insecticide means-

(i) any substance specified in the schedule; or

\(ii) such other substance (including fungicides and insecticides) as the Central Government may, after consultation with the Board, by notification in the Official Gazette, include in the schedule from time to time; or

(iii) any preparation containing any one or more of such substances;

(f) Insecticide Analyst means an insecticide analyst appointed under section 19;

(g) Insecticide Inspector means an insecticide inspector appointed under section 20;

(h) label means any written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate package and on every other covering in which the package is placed or packed and includes any written, printed or graphic matter accompanying the insecticide;

(i) licensing officer means a licensing officer appointed under section 12;

(j) manufacture, in relation to any insecticide, includes-

(i) any process or part of a process for making, altering, finishing, packing, labeling, breaking up or otherwise treating or adopting any insecticide with a view to its sale, distribution or use but does not include the packing or breaking up of any insecticide in the ordinary course of retail business; and

(ii) any process by which preparation containing an insecticide is formulated;

(k) misbranded  an insecticide shall be deemed to be misbranded-

(i) if its label contains any statement, design or graphic representation relating thereto which is false or misleading in any material particular, or if its package is otherwise deceptive in respect of its contents; or

(ii) if it is an imitation of, or is also under the name of, another insecticide; or

(iii) if its label does not contain a warning or caution which may be necessary and sufficient, if compiled with to prevent risk to human beings or animals; or

(iv) if any word, statement or other information required by or under this Act to appear on the label is not displayed thereon in such conspicuous manner as the other words, statements, designs or graphic matter have been displayed on the label and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by any ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use; or

(v) if it is not packed or labeled as required by or under this Act; or

(vi) if it is not registered in the manner required by or under this Act; or

(vii) if the label contains any reference to registration other than the registration number; or

(viii) if the insecticide has a toxicity which is higher than the level prescribed or is mixed or packed with any substance so as to alter its nature or quality or contains any substance which is not included in the registration;

(l) package means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper, or other thing in which an insecticide is placed or packed;

(m) premises means any land, shop, stall or place, where any
insecticide is sold or manufactured or stored or used, and
includes any vehicle carrying insecticides;

(n) prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(o) registered, with its grammatical variations and cognate
expressions, means registered under this Act;

(p) sale, with it grammatical variations and cognate expressions,
means the sale of any insecticide whether for cash or on credit
and whether by wholesale or retail, and includes an agreement
for sale, an offer for sale, the exposing for sale or having in
possession for sale of any insecticide and includes also an
attempt to sell any such insecticide;

(q) State Government, in relation to a Union territory, means the
administrator thereof;

(r) worker means a person employed under a contract of service
or apprenticeship.

4. The Central Insecticides Board

(1) The Central government shall, as soon as may be, constitute a
Board to be called the Central Insecticides Board to advise the
Central Government and State Governments on technical
matters arising out of administration of this Act and to carry out
the other functions assigned to the Board by or under this Act.

(2) The matters on which the Board may advise under sub-section
(1) shall include matter relating to-

(a) the risk to human beings or animals involved in the use
of insecticides and the safety measures necessary to
prevent such risk;

(b) the manufacture, sale, storage, transport and distribution
of insecticides with a view to ensure safety to human
beings or animals.

(3) The Board shall consist of the following members, namely:

(i) the Director-General of Health Services, ex-officio,
who shall be Chairman;

(ii) the Drugs Controller, India, ex-officio;

(iii) the Plant Protection Adviser to the Government of
India, ex officio;

(iv) the Director of Storage and Inspection, Ministry of
Food, Agriculture, Community Development and
Co-operation (Department of food) ex officio

(v) the Chief Adviser of Factories, ex officio;

(vi) the Director-General, National Institute of
Communicable Diseases, ex officio;

(vii) the Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural
Research, ex officio;

(viii) the Director-General, Indian Council of Medical
Research, ex officio;

(ix) the Director, Zoological Survey of India, ex officio;

(x) the Director-General, Indian Standards Institution, ex
officio;

(xi) the Director-General of Shipping, Ministry of Transport
and Shipping, ex officio;

(xii) the Joint Director, Traffic (General), Ministry of
Railways (Railway board), ex officio;

(xiii) the Secretary, Central Committee for Food Standards,
ex officio;

(xiii-a) the Animal Husbandry Commissioner, Department of
Agriculture, ex officio;

(xiii-b) the Joint Commissioner (Fisheries), Department of
Agriculture, ex officio;

(xiii-c) the Deputy Inspector-General of Forests (Wild Life),
Department of Agriculture ex officio; ]

(xiv) one person to represent the Ministry of Petroleum and
Chemicals, to be nominated by the Central Government

(xv) one pharmacology's to be nominated by the Central
Government;

(xvi) one medical toxicologist to be nominated by the Central
Government;

(xvii) one person who shall be in charge in industrial health and
occupational hazards, to be nominated by the Central
Government;

(xviii) two persons who shall in charge of Agriculture in States,
to be nominated by the Central Government;

(xix) four persons, one of who shall be an expert in industrial
health and occupational hazards, to be nominated by
the Central Government;

(xx) one person to represent the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research, to be nominated by the Central
Government;

[xxi) one Ecologist to be nominated by the Central
Government]

(4) The persons nominated under clauses (xiv) to [xxi)] inclusive, of
sub-section (3) shall, unless their seats become vacant earlier by
registration, death or otherwise, hold office for three years from
the date of their nomination but shall be eligible for
re-nomination;

Provided that the persons nominated under clauses
(xvii) and (xviii) shall hold office only for so long as they hold
the appointments by virtue of which their nominations were
made.

(5) No act or proceeding of the Board, the Registration Committee
or any committee appointed under section 6; shall be called in
question on the ground merely of the existence of any vacancy
in, or any defect in the constitution of the Board, the
Registration Committee or such committee, as the case may be]

5. Registration Committee

(1) The Central Government shall constitute a Registration
Committee consisting of a Chairman, and not more than five
persons who shall be members of the Board (including the
Drugs Controller, India and the Plant Protection Adviser to the
Government of India)-

(i) to register insecticides after scrutinizing their formulae and verifying claims made by the importer or the manufacturer, as the case may be, as regards their efficacy and safety to human beings and animals; and

(ii) to perform such other functions as are assigned to it by
or under this Act.

(2) Where the Chairman is not a member of the Board, his term of
office and other conditions of service shall be such as May be
determined by the Central Government.

(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), a member of the
Registration Committee shall hold office for so long as he is a
member of the Board.

(4) The Committee may also co-opt such number of experts and
for such purpose or period as it may deem fit, by any expert so
co-opted shall have no right to vote.

(5) Registration Committee shall regulate its own procedure and the
conduct of the business to be transacted by it.

6. Other Committees:

The Board may appoint such committees as it deems fit and may
appoint to them, persons who are not members of the Board to exercise such
powers and perform such duties as may, subject to such conditions, if any, as
the Board may impose, be delegated to them by the Board.

7. Procedure for Board

The Board may, subject to the previous approval of the Central
government, make bye-laws for the purpose of regulating its own procedure
and the procedure of any committee thereof and the conduct of all business to
be transacted by it or such committee.

8. Secretary and other officers

The Central Government shall 

(i) appoint a person to be the Secretary of the Board who shall
also function as Secretary to the Registration Committee; and

(ii) provide the Board and the Registration Committee with such
technical and other staff as the Central Government considers
necessary.

9. Registration of insecticides

(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 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
of [seventeen months] from the date of such commencement for the registration
of any insecticide which he has been importing or manufacturing before the date:

[Provided further that where any person referred to in the preceding
provision 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 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 [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 on 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.

2 [(3A) In the case of applications received by it prior to the 31st March, 1975,
notwithstanding the expiry of the period specified in sub-section (3) for 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):
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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 of 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 the 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 of 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.
1. Subs by Act 46 of 1972 sec.2 for Six month" (w.e.f. 01-8-1971)
2. Ins by Act 46 of 1972 , sec. 2 (w.e.f. 01-08- 1971).

10. Appeal against non-registration or cancellation

Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Registration Committee under Section 9 may, within a period of thirty days from the date on which the decision is
communicated to him, appeal in the prescribed manner and on payment of the
prescribed fee to the Central Government whose decision thereon shall be final:

Provided that the Central Government may entertain an appeal after
the expiry of the said period, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by
sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.

11. Power of revision of Central Government

The Central Government may, at any time, call for the record relating to
any case in which the Registration Committee has given a decision under section
9 for the purpose of satisfying itself as to the legality or propriety of any such
decision and may pass any such order in relation thereto as it thinks fit:

Provided that no such order shall be passed after the expiry of one
year from the date of decision:

Provided further that the Central Government shall not pass an
order prejudicial to any person unless that person has had a reasonable
opportunity of showing cause against the proposed order.

12. Licensing Officers:

The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be licensing officers for the purposes of
this Act and define the areas in respect of which they shall exercise jurisdiction.

13. Grant of license:

(1) Any person desiring to manufacture or to sell, stock or exhibit for sale or
distribute any insecticide (or to undertake commercial Pest Control operations
with the use of any insecticide) may make an application to the licensing officer
for the grant of a license.

Provided that any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or
selling, stocking or exhibiting for sale or distributing any insecticide immediately
before the commencement of this section shall make an application to the
licensing officer for the grant of a license within a period of [Seventeen months]
from the date of such commencement:

Provided further that any person engaged in the commercial pest
control operations immediately before the commencement of the Insecticides
(Amendment) Act, 1977 (24 of 1977), shall make an application to the
licensing officer for the grant of a license within a period of six months from the
commencement of the said Act]

(2) Every application under sub-section (1) shall be made in such form
and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed.

(3) On receipt of any such application for the grant of a license, the licensing
officer may grant a license in such form, on such conditions and on payment of
such fee as may be prescribed

(4) A license granted under the Section shall be valid for the period specified
therein and may be renewed from time to time for such period and on payment
of such fee as may be prescribed

1. Subs by Act 24 of 1977 section 4.
2. Subs by Act. 46 of 1972, section 3 , for "three months " (w.e.f. 01-08-1971)
3. Ins. by Act 24 of 1977 , Sec. 4

Provided that where a license has been granted to any person who has
made an application under [the first provision or , as the case may be the second
prose] to sub-section (1), that license shall be deemed to be cancelled in
relation to any insecticide, the application for registration whereof has been
refused or the registration whereof has been cancelled, under this Act, with
effect from the date on which such refusal or cancellation is notified in the
Official Gazette.
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2(5) In prescribing fees the grant of renewal of licenses under this Section,
different fees may be prescribed for the sale or distribution of insecticides for
purposes of domestic use and for other purposes.

14. Revocation, suspension and amendment of licenses

(1) If the licensing officer is satisfied, either on a reference made to him in this behalf
or otherwise, that

a) the license granted under Section 13 has been granted because
of misrepresentation as to an essential fact; or

b) the holder of a license has failed to comply with the conditions
subject to which the license was granted or has contravened
any of the provisions of this Act or the Rules made there under,

then, without prejudice to any other penalty to which the holder of the license
may be liable under this Act, the licensing officer may, after giving the holder of
the license an opportunity of showing cause, revoke or suspend the license.

(2) Subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, the licensing officer may also vary or amend a license granted under Section 13.

COMMENTS

If the volume noted on label of container is found lesser then material cannot be said to be substandard and order suspending the manufacturing license is improper, Bharat Pulversing Mills Ltd.
v. Joint Director of Agriculture, AIR 1993 Mad 74.

15. Appeal against the decision of a licensing officer

(1) Any person aggrieved by a decision of a licensing officer under Section 13
(except under the proviso of sub-section (4)) or Section 14 may, within a
period of thirty days from the date on which the decision is communicated to
him, appeal to such authority in such manner and on payment of such fees as
may be prescribed;

Provided that the appellate authority may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said period if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.

(2) On receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the appellate authority shall, after giving the appellant an opportunity of showing cause, dispose of the appeal ordinarily within a period of six months and the decision of the appellate authority shall be final.

16. Central Insecticides Laboratory

The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
establish a Central Insecticide Laboratory under the control of Director to be
appointed by the Central Government to carry out the functions entrusted to it
by or under this Act:
1. Subs by Act 24 of 1977 , sec. 4
2. Ins. by Act. 24 of 1977 , Sec. 4

Provided that if the Central Government so directs by a notification
in the Official Gazette, the functions of the Central Insecticides Laboratory shall,
to such extent as may be specified in the notification, be carried out at any such
institution as may be specified therein and thereupon the functions of the
Director of the Central Insecticides Laboratory shall to the extent so specified,
be exercised by the head of the Institution.

17. Prohibition of import and manufacture of certain
insecticides

(1) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, import
or manufacture-

(a) any misbranded insecticides;

(b) any insecticide the sale, distribution or use of which is
for the time being prohibited under section 27;

(c) any insecticide except in accordance with the condition
on which it was registered;

(d) any insecticide in contravention of any other provision
of this Act or of any rule made there under

Provided that any person who has applied for registration on an
insecticide [under any of the provisos] to sub-section (1) of section 9 may
continue to import of manufacture any such insecticide and such insecticide shall
not be deemed to be a misbranded insecticide within the meaning of sub-clause
(vi) or sub-clause (vii) or sub-clause (viii) of clause (k) of section 3, until he has
been informed by the Registration Committee of its decision to refuse to register
the said insecticide

(2) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, manufacture
any insecticides except under, and in accordance with the conditions of a license
issued for such purpose under this Act

COMMENTS

Liability for prosecution of company shall go to in charge or otherwise person responsible to company ;M/s National Farm Chemicals v. State of Haryana, (1994) 2 CC cases 218 : (1994) Recent CR 480 (P & 11).

18. Prohibition of sale, etc. of certain insecticides:

(1) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, sell, stock or exhibit for sale, distribute, (transport, use, or cause to be used) by any worker

a) any insecticide which is not registered under this Act;

b) any insecticide, the sale, distribution or use of which is for the
time being prohibited under Section 27;

c) any insecticide in contravention of any other provision of this
Act or of any rule made hereunder.

(2) No person shall, himself or by any person on his behalf, sell, stock or exhibit for sale or distribute [or use for commercial pest control operations] any insecticide
except under, and in accordance with the conditions of, a license issued for
such purpose under this Act.
1. Subs by Act 46 of 1972 sec. for " under the proviso " (w.e.f. 01-08-1971)
2. Subs by Act 24 of 1977 , Sec. 5.
3. Ins. by Act 24 of 1977 , sec. 5.

Explanation: For the purpose of this section an insecticide in respect of which
any person has applied for a certificates of registration [under any of the
provisos] to sub-section (1) of section 9, shall be deemed to be registered till
the date on which the refusal to register such insecticides is notified in the
Official Gazette.

19. Insecticide Analysts:

The Central Government or a State Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, appoint persons in such number as it thinks fit and
possessing such technical and other qualifications as may be prescribed to be
Insecticide Analysts for such areas and in respect of such insecticides or class of
insecticides as may be specified in the notification:-

Provided that no person who has any financial interest in the
manufacture, import or sale of any insecticide, shall be so appointed.

20.Insecticide Inspectors:

(1) The Central Government or a State Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint persons in such number as it thinks fit and possessing
such technical and other qualifications as may be prescribed to be Insecticide
Inspectors for such areas as may be specified in the notification:

Provided that any person who does not posses the required
qualifications may be so appointed only for the purposes of clause (a) and
clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 21:

Provided further that no person who has any financial interest
in the manufacture, import or sale of any insecticide shall be so appointed.

(2) Every Insecticide Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the
meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code and shall be officially
subordinate to such authority as the Government appointing him may specify in
this behalf.

21. Powers of Insecticide Inspectors:

(1) An Insecticide Inspector shall have power-

(a) to enter and search, at all reasonable times and with such
assistance, if any, as he considers necessary, any premises in
which he has reason to believe that an offence under this Act or
the rules made there under has been or is being or is about to be
committed, or for the purpose of satisfying himself that the
provisions of this Act or the rules made there under or the
conditions of any certificate of registration or license issued
there under are being complied with;

(b) to require the production of, and to inspect, examine and make
copies of, or take extracts from registers, records or any other
documents kept by a manufacturer, distributor, carrier, dealer
or any other person in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or
the Rules made there under and seize the same, if he has reason
to believe that all or any of them, may furnish evidence of the
commission of an offence punishable under this Act or the rules
made there under;

(c) to make such examination and inquiry as he thinks fit in order to
ascertain whether the provisions of this Act or the rules made
there under are being complied with and for that purpose stop
any vehicle;

(d) to stop the distribution, sale or use of an insecticide which he
has reason to believe is being distributed, sold or used in
contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made
there under, for a specified period not exceeding twenty days, or
unless the alleged contravention is such that the defect may be
removed by the possessor of the insecticide, seize the stock of
such insecticide;
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1. Subs by Act 46 of 1972, Sec. 5 for "under the provision" (w.e.f. 01-08-1971)

(e) to take samples of any insecticide and send such samples for
analysis to the Insecticide Analyst for test in the prescribed
manner; and

(f) to exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying
out the purposes of this Act or the rules made there under.

(2) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, (1973) (2 of 1974), shall,
so far as may be, apply to any search or seizure under this Act as they apply to
any search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued under
Section 94 of the said Code.

(3) An Insecticide Inspector may exercise the powers of a police officer under
Section 42 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), for the
purpose of ascertaining the true name and residence of the person from whom a
sample is taken or an insecticide is seized.

COMMENTS

While analyzing samples of insecticides, the Insecticide Analyst is not empowered to go into the question whether the Volume contained in the container is as noted on the label,: Bharat Pulverizing Mills Ltd.v.Joint Director of Agriculture, AIR 1993 Mad 74.

22. Procedure to be followed by Insecticide Inspectors:

(1) Where an Insecticide Inspector seizes any record, register or document under
clause (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 21, he shall, as soon as may be, inform
a Magistrate and take his orders as to the custody thereof.

(2) Where an Insecticide Inspector takes any action under Clause (d) of
sub-section (1) of Section 21 

(a) he shall use all dispatch in ascertaining whether or not the
insecticide or its sale, distribution or use contravenes any of the
provisions of Section 18 and if it is ascertained that the
insecticide or its sale, distribution or use does not so
contravene, forthwith revoke the order passed under the said
clause or, as the case may be, take such action as may be
necessary for the return of the stock seized;

(b) if he seizes the stock of the insecticide he shall, as soon as may
be, inform a Magistrate and take his orders as to the custody
thereof;

(c) without prejudice to the institution of any prosecution, if the
alleged contravention be such that the defect may be remedied,
by the possessor of the insecticide, he shall, on being satisfied
that the defect has been so remedied, forthwith revoke his order
and in case where the Insecticide Inspector has seized the stock
of insecticide, he shall, as soon as may be, inform a Magistrate
and obtain his orders as to the release thereof.

(3) Where an Insecticide Inspector takes any sample of an insecticide, he shall
tender the fair price thereof and may require a written acknowledgement
therefore.

(4) Where the price tendered under sub-section (3) is refused, or where the
Insecticide Inspector seizes the stock of any insecticide under clause (d) of
sub-section (1) of section 21, he shall tender a receipt therefore in the prescribed
form.

(5) Where an Insecticide Inspector takes a sample of an insecticide for the purpose of test or analysis, he shall intimate such purpose in writing in the prescribed
form to the person from whom he takes it and, in the presence of such person
unless he willfully absents himself, shall divide the sample into three portions and
effectively seal and suitably mark the same and permit such person to add his
own seal and mark to all or any of the portions so sealed and marked:

1. Subs by Act 24 of 1977 Sec. 6.

Provided that where the insecticide is made up in containers of small
volume, instead of dividing a sample as aforesaid, the Insecticide Inspector may,
and if the insecticide be such that it is likely to deteriorate or be otherwise
damaged by exposure shall take three of the said containers after suitably
marking the same and, where necessary, sealing them.

(6) The Insecticide Inspector shall restore one portion of a sample so divided or
one container, as the case may be, to the person from whom he takes it and
shall retain the remainder and dispose of the same as follows:-

i) one portion or container, he shall forthwith send to the
Insecticide Analyst for test or analysis; and

ii) the second, he shall produce to the court before which
proceedings, if any, are instituted in respect of the insecticide.

23. Persons bound to disclose place where Insecticides are
manufactured or kept.

Every person for the time being in charge of any premises where any
insecticide is being manufactured or is kept for sale or distribution shall, on
being required by an Insecticide Inspector so to do, be legally bound to disclose
to the Insecticide Inspector the place where the insecticide is being
manufactured or is kept, as the case may be.

24. Report of Insecticide Analyst:

(1) The Insecticide Analyst to whom a sample of any insecticide has been submitted for test or analysis under sub-section (6) of section 22, shall, within a period of
sixty days, deliver to the Insecticide Inspector submitting it a signed report in
duplicate in the prescribed form.

(2) The Insecticide Inspector on receipt thereof shall deliver one copy of the report to the person from whom the sample was taken and shall retain the other copy
for use in any prosecution in respect of the sample

(3) Any document purporting to be a report signed by an Insecticide Analyst shall be evidence of the facts stated therein, and such evidence shall be conclusive
unless the person from whom the sample was taken has within twenty eight days
of the receipt of a copy of the report notified in writing the Insecticide Inspector
or the court before which any proceedings in respect of the samples are pending
that he intends to adduce evidence in controversial of the report.

(4) Unless the sample has already been tested or analyzed in the Central
Insecticides Laboratory, where a person has under sub-section (3) notified his
intention of adducing evidence in controversial of the Insecticide Analysts
report, the Court may, of its own motion or in its discretion at the request, either
of the complainant or of the accused, cause the sample of the insecticide
produced before the magistrate under sub-section (6) of section 22 to be sent
for test or analysis to the said laboratory, which shows writhing a period of thoroughly does make the test or Analysis and report in writing signed by, or under the authority of, the Director of the Central Insecticides Laboratory the result thereof, and such report shall be conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein.

(5) The cost of a test or analysis made by the Central Insecticides Laboratory
under sub-section (4) shall be paid by the complainant or the accused, as the
court shall direct.

COMMENTS

(I) Where the accused was not supplied with copy of the report of Insecticides Analyst, he was deprived of his right to rebut the report ; M/s Solar Syndicate Dungri v. State of Punjab, 1994 Gr.LI. NOC 213 (P & H).

(ii) The sample of Aldrex taken was found to be misbranded. The complaint was filed in court after expiry of self-life chemicals. It was held that since accused lost the right under section 24(4) to get the sample re-analyzed from Central Insecticides Laboratory, proceedings are not maintainable'; National Organic Chemicals Industry Ltd. v. State of Punjab, (1994) 1 Recent CR 334 (P & H).

(iii) Court may order for re-examination of sample found misbranded suo-moto or on the application of accused by Central Insecticides Laboratory; Mewa Sing v. Prithipal Singh, Inspector (1994) 1 Recent CR 94 (P & H).

25. Confiscation:-

(1) Where any person has been convicted under this Act for contravening any of
the provisions of this Act or of the rules made thereunder, the stock of the
insecticide in respect of which the contravention has been made shall be liable to
confiscation.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-section (1), where the
Court is satisfied on the application of an Insecticide Inspector or otherwise and
after such inquiry as may be necessary, that the insecticide is misbranded
insecticide, such insecticide shall be liable to confiscation.

26. Notification of poisoning

The State Government, may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
require any person or class of persons specified therein to report all
occurrences of poisoning (through the use or handling of any insecticide) coming
within his or their cognizance to such officer as may be specified in the said
notification.

27. Prohibition of sale etc. of insecticides for reasons of public
safety:

(1) If, on receipt of a report under Section 26 or otherwise, the Central
Government or the State Government is of opinion, for reasons to be recorded
in writing, that the use of any insecticide specified in sub-clause (iii) of clause (e)
of section (3) or any specific batch thereof is likely to involve such risk to human
beings or animals as to render it expedient or necessary to take immediate
action then that Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit
the sale, distribution or use of the insecticide or batch in such area, to such
extent and for such period (not exceeding sixty days) as may be specified in the
notification pending investigation into the matter:

Provided that where the investigation is not completed within the
said period, the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may
be, may extend it by such further period or periods not exceeding thirty days in
the aggregate as it may specify in a like manner.

(2) If, as a result of its own investigation or on receipt of the report from the State Government, and after consultation with the Registration Committee, the Central
Government, is satisfied that the use of the said insecticide or batch is likely to
cause any such risk, it may pass such order (including an order refusing to
register the insecticide or canceling the certificate of registration, if any, granted
in respect thereof), as it deems fit, depending on the circumstances of the case.

28. Notification of cancellation of registration, etc.

A refusal to register any insecticide or a cancellation of a certificate of
registration of any insecticides shall be notified in Official Gazette and in such
other manner as may be prescribed.

29. Offences and punishment:

(1) Whoever 

(a) imports, manufactures, sells, stocks or exhibits for sale or
distributes any insecticide deemed to be misbranded under
sub-clause (i) or sub-clause (iii) or sub-clause (viii) of clause (k)
of section 3; or

(b) imports or manufactures any insecticide without a certificate of
registration; or

(c) manufactures, sells, stocks or exhibits for sale or distributes an
insecticide without a license; or

(d) sells or distributes an insecticide, in contravention of section 27;
or

(e) causes an insecticide, the use of which has been prohibited
under section 27, to be used by any worker; or

(f) obstructs an Insecticide Inspector in the exercise of his powers
or discharge of his duties under this Act or the rules made
there under-

shall be punishable 

(i) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to two
thousand rupees or with both;

(ii) for the second and a subsequent offence, with imprisonment for
a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

(2) Whoever uses an insecticide in contravention of any provision of this Act or any rule made there under shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five
hundred rupees.

(3) Whoever contravenes any of the other provisions of this Act or any rule made there under or any condition of a certificate of registration or license granted
there under, shall be punishable 

(i) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to six months, or with fine, or with both;

(ii) for the second and a subsequent offence, with imprisonment for
a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

(4) If any person convicted of an offence under this Act commits a like offence
afterwards it shall be lawful for the Court before which the second or
subsequent conviction takes place to cause the offenders name and place of
residence, the offence and the penalty imposed to be published in such
newspapers or in such other manner as the Court may direct.

COMMENTS

There was a complaint under section 29(1)(a) read with section 17(1)(a) of the Act and a petition under section 482 Cr.PC for quashing. It was held that the Senior Analyst has reported that tolerance in variation in its content has been noticed as 4.7%. Since the permissible limit of tolerance in variation on either side was 5% the proceedings are quashed; Vikas Pesticides v. State of Haryana. (1994) XXI Cr. L.T. 292 (P & H ).

30 Defense which may or may not be allowed in prosecutions
under this Act:

(1) Save as hereinafter provided in this section, it shall be no defense in a
prosecution under this Act to prove merely that the accused was ignorant of the
nature of quality of the insecticide in respect of which the offence was
committed or of the risk involved in the manufacture, sale or use of such
insecticide or of the circumstances of its manufacture or import.

(2) For the purposes of section 17, an insecticide shall not be deemed to be
misbranded only by reason of the fact that 

(a) there has been added thereto some innocuous substance or
ingredient because the same is required for the manufacture or
the preparation of the insecticide as an article of commerce in a
state fit for carriage or consumption, and not to increase the
bulk, weight or measure of the insecticide or to conceal its
inferior quality or other defect; or

(b) in the process of manufacture, preparation or conveyance some
extraneous substance has unavoidably become intermixed with
it.

(3) A person not being an importer or a manufacturer of an insecticide or his agent for the distribution thereof, shall not be liable for a contravention of any
provision of this Act, if he proves 

(a) that he acquired the insecticide from an importer or a duly
licensed manufacturer, distributor or dealer thereof;

(b) that he did not know and could not, with reasonable diligence,
have ascertained that the insecticide in any way contravened
any provision of this Act; and

(c) that the insecticide, while in his possession, was properly stored
and remained in the same sate as when he acquired it

COMMENT

Sample of fertilizer found to be misbranded. Accused taking the defense of section 30(3). All the grounds mentioned in section 30(3) are questions of fact and must be proved like any other fact by leading evidence in trial court. Care averment in the petition cannot be deemed to be evidence Ashwani Kumar Bhakoo v.State of Punjab, 1994 (1) Recent CR 349(P&H).

31. Cognizance and trial of offences:

(1) No prosecution for an offence under this Act shall be instituted except by, or
with the written consent of the State Government or a person authorized in this
behalf by the State Government.

(2) No Court inferior to that of a (metropolitan magistrate or a judicial magistrate of
the first class) shall try any offence under this Act.

COMMENT

Provisions of section 31 are mandatory in nature; Madan Dangi v.State of Punjab, 1986 cc cases 287

[1[32. Magistrates power to impose enhanced penalties

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33.Offences by companies

(1) Whenever an offence under this Act has been committee by a company, every
person who at the time the offence was committed was in charge of, or was
responsible to the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as
well ss the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be
liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:

PROVIDED that nothing contained in this bus-section shall render any such
person liable to any punishment under this Act if he proves that the offence was
committee without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to
prevent the commission of such offence.

1. Subs by Act 24 of 1977. sec. 7
2. Section 32 omitted by Act 24 of 1977 .sec. 8.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under
this Act has been committee by a company and it is proved that the offence has
been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any
neglect, on the part, of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the
company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be
deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against
and punished accordingly.

Explanation: For the purpose of this section:

(a) company means any body corporate and includes a
firm or other association of individuals; and

(b) director, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the
firm.

[1] Substituted by Act 24 of 1977, w.e.f. 2-10-1977

34. Power of the Central Government to give directions:

The Central Government may give such directions to any State
Government as may appear to the Central Government to be necessary for
carrying into execution in the State any of the provisions of this Act or of any
rule or order made there under.

35. Protection of action taken in good faith

No prosecution, suit or other proceeding shall lie against the Government, or
any officer of the Government, or the Board, the Registration Committee or any
Committee of the Board, for anything in good faith done or intended to be done
under this Act.

36. Power of the Central Government to make rules:

1. The Central Government may, after consultation with the Board and subject to
the condition of previous publication, by notification in the Official Gazette,
make rules for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act:

PROVIDED that consultation with the Board may be dispensed with if
the Central government is of opinion that circumstances have arisen which
render it necessary to make rules without such consultation, but in such a case
the Board shall be consulted within six months of the making of the rules and the
central Government shall take into consideration any suggestions which the
Board may make in relation to the amendment of the said rules.

2. In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
power, such rules may prescribe-

a) the method of packing and labeling;

b) the manner of registration of an insecticide;

c) the functions of the Board and of the Registration
Committee and the traveling and other allowances
payable to members of the board, the Registration
Committee and any Committee of the Board;

d) the places at which insecticides may be imported and
prohibit their import at any other place;

e) the form of application for registration of an insecticide
and the particulars relating thereto;

f) the fee payable in respect of registration;

g) the manner of appeal to the Central Government under
section 10 and the fee payable therefore;
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1. Certain words omitted by Act 24 of 1977 sec. 9.

h) the form of application for the grant of license and the
particulars relating thereto;

i) the form of license, the conditions attached thereto and
the fee payable therefore;

j) the period for which a license may be renewed and the
fee for such renewal;

k) the circumstances in which a license may be varied or
amended under sub-section (2) of section 14;

l) the functions of the Central Insecticides Laboratory;

m) the qualifications, powers and duties of an Insecticide
Analyst and an Insecticide Inspector;

n) the manner of testing or analyzing the samples of any
insecticide and the fee payable therefore;

o) the form in which intimation shall be given by an
Insecticide Inspector under sub-section (5) of section
22 to a person from whom a sample of an insecticide is
taken for test or analysis.

p) the form in which an Insecticide Analyst shall submit a
report of his test or analysis to the Insecticide Inspector
under sub-section (1) of section 24;

q) the protection clothing and equipment to be used by
workers during the manufacture, formulation, transport,
distribution and application of insecticides and other
facilities to be provided to keep themselves and things
supplied to them free from any contamination;

r) the use by the workers of any such protection clothing,
equipment and other facilities;

s) the precautions to be taken against poisoning through
the use or handling of insecticides;

t) the measures for detecting and investigating cases in
which poisoning has occurred;

u) the facilities to be provided regarding the use of things
supplied to the workers for ensuring their safety;

v) the instruction and training to be provided regarding the
use of things supplied to the workers for ensuring their
safety;

w) the facility for medical examination of workers engaged
in the manufacture of handling of insecticides;

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y) the equipment for, and method of, application of, an
insecticide and the disposal of surplus material,
washings and containers, following application;

z) the maintenance and inspection of records and returns;

za) the restrictions on storage of insecticide during transport or
otherwise along with articles of food;

zb) the maximum proportion of any insecticide which may be
added to, or contained in, any preparation for domestic
use and the restrictions thereon;

zc) the manner in which refusal to registration of an insecticide
or cancellation of certificate of registration thereof may
be notified.
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1. Clause (X) omitted by Act 24 of 1977, sec. 9

Zd) the officer or authority to whom the Central Government
may delegate any of the powers and functions conferred
on it by this Act;

ze) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.

3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this
Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,
before each House of Parliament while it is in session
for a total period of thirty days which may be
comprised in one session or in two or more successive
sessions and if, before the expiry of the session
immediately following the session of the successive
sessions aforesaid both Houses agree in making any
modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the
rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have
effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as
the case may be; so however, that any such
modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to
the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

37. Power of the State Government to make rules:

1) The State Government may, after consultation with the Board
and subject to the condition of previous publication, by
notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for the purpose of
giving effect to the provisions of this Act and not inconsistent
with the rules, if any, made by the Central Government.

2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing power, such rules may provide for -

(a) the authority to which, the manner in which, and the fee on
payment of which, an appeal may be filed under section 15 and
the procedure to be followed by the appellate authority in
disposing of the appeal;

(b) the delegation of any of the powers and functions conferred by
this Act on the State Government to any officer or authority
specified by that Government.

38. Exemption

(1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to-
(a) the use of any insecticide by any person for his own household
purposes or for garden or in respect of any land under his
cultivation;

(b) any substance specified or included in the Schedule or any
preparation containing any one or more such substances, if such
substance or preparation is intended for purposes other than
preventing, destroying repelling or mitigating any insects, rodents,
fungi, weeds and other forms of plant or animal life not useful to
human beings.

(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
and subject to such conditions, if any, as it may specify therein, exempt from all
or any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under, any
educational, scientific or research organization engaged in carrying out
experiments, with insecticides.
1. Subs. by Act 24 of 1977.sec.9

THE SCHEDULE
[Sec. 3(c)]

LIST OF INSECTICIDES

Acrylonitrile

Aldrin
(1:2:3:4:10:10=hexachloro-1:4:4a;5:8;8a-hexahydro-1:4:5:8-dimethanonaphthalene)

Allethrin (ally 1 homologue of Cindering I)

Aluminium phosphide

Amiton

Antu (alpha-naphthyl thiourea)

Aramite [2(p-tert-butylphenoxy) is propyl 1-2 chloroethuyyl sulphite]

Barium Carbonate

Barium Flurosilicate

BHC (benzene hexachloride) 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorohexane)

Bis-dimethylamino flourophosphine oxide

Calcium arsenate

Calcium Cyanide

Captan (N-trichloromethylmercapto-4 cyclohexane), 1,2-discarboximide

Carbaryl (1-naphthyul-N-methyl carbamate)

Carbon disulphide

Carbon Tetrachloride

Chlorbenside (p-chlorobenzyl-p-chlorophenyl sulphide)

Chlorobis ethyl amino triazine

Chlordane (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 1-octachloro-2-3,3a,
4,7,7a-hexahydro-4,7-methanoindane)

Chlorobenzilate (ethyl 4,4-dichlorobenzilate)

Chlorothion (o,o-dimethyl-o-3chloro,4-nitrophenyl thiono phosphate)

Chloro-I.P.C.

Chloropicrin

Chlorofension (p-chlorophenyl-p-chlorobenzene sulphonate)

S-(p-chlorophenylthio) methyl-o-odiethyl phosphorodithioate (Trithion)

CIPC ({isopropy1-N(3-chlorophenyl) carbamate]

CMU (Manuron)

Coper Aracnate

CopperCyanide

Coper Napthanate

Copper sulphate

Coumachlor (3-(a-acetony)-4-chalorobenzy1-4-hydroxy hydroxy coumarin) }

Coper oxychloride

Cuprous oxide
1. Subs by G.S.R. 576 (E) , dated 26th August , 1993.

Dalapon (sodium 2,2, dichloropropionate)

D-D mixture

DDD (Dichloro Diphenyl Dichloroethane)

DDT (a mixture of 1,1-trichloro-2-bis (p-chlorophenyl) ethane and 1-1,
1-trichloro-2 (o-chlorophenyl)-2 (p-chlorophenyl)ethane]

DDVP (2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate)

Demeton-O(O,o-diethyl-S[(9-ethylthio)-ethyl] phosphorothioate)

Diazinon (O, O-d athly -O{2-isoprophy 1-6-methy 1-4-pyrimidiny 1)phosphorothioate)

ethy-O[e-isopropyl-6-methyl-4-pyrimidinyl]phosphorothioate)

Dibrom (1,2-dibromo, 1,2 2-dichloroethyl dimethyl phosphate)

Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D)

Dieldrin (1:2:3:4:10; 10-hexachloro-6, 6-epoxy-1; 4a:5:6:7:8:8a
Octahydro-1:4:5:8-dimethanonaphthalene)

Dimethoate (O, O-dimethyl-S (N-methylcarbamoyl methyl)phosphorodithioate)

Dipterex (O,O-dimethyl-2,2, 2-trichloro hydroxy ethyl phosphonate)

DNOC (dinitro-ortho-compound) (3:5-dinitro-o-cresol)

EDCT mixture (ethylene dichloride chloride carbon tetrachloride mixture)

Ekatin

Endrin (1,2,3,4,10-10-hexachloro-6, 7-epoxy-1,4, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8a
Octahydro-1, 4-endo-endo 5-8-dimethanonophthalene)

E.P.N.(O-ethyl-O-p nitriphynul benzene thiophosphonate)

Ethoroxy ethyl mercusry chloride

Ethyl di-nprophylthiolcarbamate(Eptam)

Ethyl mercury phosphate

Ethyl mercury chloride

Ethylene dibromide

Ethylene Dichloride

Fenson (Parachlorophenyl benzene sulphonate)

Fenthion (3-methyl-4methyl thiophenyl phosphorothionate)

Ferbam (ferric dimethyl dithiocarbamate)

Gusathion (O, O-dimethyl
S(4-oxo-1,2)3-benzotriazinyl-3-methyl(phosphorothioate)

Heptachlor(1,4,5,6,7,8
8-heptachloro-4-7-methano-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydroindene)

HETP(Hexaethyl tetraphosphate)

Hexachlorobenzene

Hydrogen cyanide

Hydrogen phosphide

Lead arsenate

Lime sulphur (calcium polysulphide,water-free sulphur, calcium thiosulphate
mixture(

Lindane )gamma, B.H.C.)

Malahtion S-(1,2-Bis(ethoxycarbonyl ethyl)
O,O-dimethyl-phosphorordithioate)

Maleic hydrazide(1,2-dihydropyroridazine 3,6-dione)

Maneb manganese ethylene bisdithiocarbamate)

MCPA-(4-chloro 2 methyl phenoxy acetic acid)

Mercuric chloride

Metaldehyde

Metasystox

Methoxychlor(1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-di-p-methoxyphenylethane)

Methoxy ethyl mercury chloride

Methyl bromide

Methyl demeton (Dimeton-methyl and Dimeton-Methyl)

Mehtyl Mercury Chloride

Methyl Parathion (O,O-dimethyl-O-nitrophenolthiophosphate)M
etox(Chlorsulphicide)

Metox (Chlorsulphade)

Nabam disodium ethylene-1, 1 bisdithiocarbamate)

Nicotine sulphate

Octa methyl pyrophoramide

Para-dichloro benzene

Parathion (O,O-diethyl-O-p-nitrophynylthiophosphate)

Paris Green (Copper Aceto arsenite)

Pentachloronitrobenzene(P.C.N.B.)

Pentachlorophenol

Phenyl mercury acetate

Phenyl mercury chloride

Phenyl mercury urea

Phosdrine

Phtalimidomethyl-O-O-dimethyl phosphorodithioate (Imidan)

Piperonyl butoxide (butyl carbityl) (6-propyl piperonyl) ether O
Prival (2-Pivaly1-indance 1-3-dione)

Potassium cyanide

Pival 2 3.dione

n-propyl ethyl-n-butyl thiocarbamate )(Tillam)

Phyrethrins (insectically active principles of chrysanthemum cinerariae folium)

Rotenone

Ryania

Sodium fluoroacetate

Sodium cyanide

Sodium flurosilicate

Sulphur(wettable or colloidal sulphur)

Stryechinine

Sulphoxide (1,2-methylene-dioxy-4(1-octylsulphinyl) propyl benzene)

TCA (Tichlor acetic acid sodium and ammonium salts)

Tedion (tetrachlor diphenyl sulphone)

TEPP (tetraethyl Pyrophosphate)

Tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone

Thanite

Thiram[bis(dimethyl thiocarbamyl) disulphide]

Tolyl mercury acetate

Trichlorphon

Trorthocresyl phosphate

Thallium sulphate

Thiometon

Taxaphene (chlorinated camphene containing 67-69% chlorine)

Trichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4,5-T)

Warfarin (3-a-acetonyl benzyl-4 hydroxy-coumarin)

Zinc phosphide

Zimet

Zineb (Zinc ethylene bis-dithiocarbamate)

Ziram (Zinc dimethyl dithiocargbamnate)

Zulate

1(Acrinathrin (s)-oc cyno-3-phenoxy benzy1(z)0IR,3S)-2,2dimethy1-3-(2-(2,2,2,-trifluoro-1-trifluromethy1 ethozycarbony) viny1)cycloprop;ane carboxylate.)

2 (Acrollen 2-Propenal or Acrylaldehyde

Actellic (Primiphosemethyl) 2-diethylamino-6-methylphyimidin-4-yl
dimethyl phosphorothionate

Afugon Diethyl methyl ethoxycarbonyl
pyrazolopyrimidine-ly-phosphorothionate

Alachlor 2chloro-2,6-diethyle-n (methoxymethyl)-acetanilide

Aldicarb 2-methyl-2-(methylthio)propional-dehydro-(methylcarbamoyl)
oxime

Amidithion S(N-2-methoxyethyl-Carlomoyl-methyl) dimethyl
phosphorothiolothionate

(Amidosulfuron 3-(4,6 dimethoxyprimiolin 2-yl)-1-(N-methyi-N-methyl-Sulphonyl-amino-sulphonyl)urea)

Amitrole 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole

Ammonium sulphamate Ammonium sulphamate

Asulam Methyl-N(4-aminobenzenesulphonyl)carbamate

Atrazine 2-Chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5-triazine

Aureofungin Aureofungin

Azinyhos-ethyl S-3,4-dihydro-4 oxobenzo-(d)-(1,2,3)-triazine-3-yl
methyl)duiethyl phosphorothiolothionate

Barban 4-chloro-2-ynyl-3-chloriphenyl carbamate

Barium polysuulphide Barium polysulphide

Bassa BCPE O-Secondary-butylphenylmethyl carbamate

(Chlorphenithal) A-1-bis-(4Chlorophenyl ethanol)

Benomy I Methyl-N-benzimidazol-2-yl-N(butylcarbamoyl carbamate)
1. Ins. by G.S.R. 538(E), dated 21st November, 1996.
2 Ins. by G.S.R. 9(E), dated 9th January, 1974.
3. Ins. by GSR 730(E), dated 30th October, 1995.

Bensulide S(O,O-di-isopropyl phosphorodithionate) ester with
N-(2mercaptoethyl) benzene
sulphonamide

Binapacryl 2-1(-methyl-n-propyl)-4, 6-dinitrophenyl-2- methylcrofonate