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Section 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 insecticide;
- (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 conditions on which it was registered;
- (d) any insecticide in contravention of any other provision of this Act or of any rule made thereunder: Provided that any person who has applied for registration of an insecticide 1 [under any of the provisos] to sub-section (1) of section 9 may continue to import or 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 insecticide except under, and in accordance with the conditions of, a licence issued for such purpose under this Act.
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