ADULTERATION ACT. 13 



SEEDS ADULTERATION. 

 Chap. 112. 



An Act to Prevent the Adulteration of Seeds. 



[nth August 1869.] 

 Whereas the practice of adulterating seeds, in fraud of 

 Her Majesty's subjects, and to the great detriment of agri- 

 culture, requires to be repressed by more eflfectual laws than 

 those which are now in force for that purpose : 



Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 

 Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords 

 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this Parliament 

 assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — 



1. This Act may be cited as " The Adulteration of Seeds 



Act, 1869." 



2. In this Act — 



The term " to kill seeds " means to destroy by artificial 

 means the vitality or germinating power of such 

 seeds : 



The term "to dye seeds" means to give to seeds by 

 any process of colouring, dyeing, sulphur-smoking, 

 or other artificial means, the appearance of seeds of 

 another kind. 



3. Every person who, with intent to defraud or to enable 



another person to defraud, does any of the following 



things ; that is to say, 

 (i.) Kills or causes to be killed any seeds ; or, 

 (2.) Dyes or causes to be dyed any seeds; or, 

 (3.) Sells or causes to be sold any killed or dyed seeds, 

 shaU be punished as follows ; that is to say, 



