Ecolex Logo
The gateway to
environmental law
Search results » Legislation

Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service Order, 1996 (L.N. No. 305 of 1996).

Country/Territory
Kenya
Document type
Regulation
Date
1996
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Kenya Gazette, Supplement No. 58 of 18 October 1996, pp. pp. 393-395.
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Plant protection Breeders' rights/farmers' rights Planting material/seeds Registration Institution Certification Inspection Plant production Intellectual property rights/patents
Geographical area
Africa, Eastern Africa
Abstract

A Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service is established under regulation 3 as a body corporate. There shall be a Board of the Corporation (reg. 3). The Corporation shall have functions regarding a wide variety of matters outlined in regulation 5 including co-ordination of all matters relating to crop pests and diseases control, to establish laboratories for monitoring quality and levels of toxic residues in plants, soils and products, to under take testing of plant varieties, certification of plants and quarantine of plants and related materials, to administer plant breeder’s rights, to enforce standards of good husbandry, to approve all seed and plants importation licences, and to implement the national policy on the introduction and use of genetically modified organisms (reg. 6). Powers of the Board are set out in regulation 7.

Full text
English

References - Legislation

Repealed by

Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service Act, 2012 (No. 54 of 2012).

Legislation | Kenya | 2012

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Plant production, Agricultural development, Institution, Plant protection, Inspection, Planting material/seeds, Breeders' rights/farmers' rights, Certification, International trade, Policy/planning, Biosafety, Intellectual property rights/patents

Source: FAO, FAOLEX