Control Of Pesticides (Amendment) Act (No. 6 of 1994)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Insertion of new section 21A in the principal enactment

13. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 21 and shall have effect as section 21 A of the principal enactment:-

21A.

	(1) No person shall sell or offer for sale any pesticide except under the authority of a certificate issued by an authorized officer.

	(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) any person may sell or offer for sale any domestic pesticide without obtaining a certificate.

	(3) Every application for a certificate shall be made to an authorized officer, in such form as may be prescribed.

(4) Every certificate for sale shall

(a) be in the prescribed form;

(b) unless it is cancelled earlier, be in force for a period of twelve months from the date of its issue.

	(5) The certificate referred to in subsection (1) shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place where the pesticide is sold."