law: Seeds Act, 1966
  9. Grant of certificate by certification
  
  agency
  (1) Any person selling, keeping for sale,
  
  offering to sell, bartering or otherwise supplying any seed of any notified
  
  kind or variety may, if desires to have such seed certified by the
  
  certification agency, apply to the certification agency for the grant of a
  
  certificate for the purpose.
  (2) Every application under sub-section (1)
  
  shall be made in such form, shall contain such particulars and shall be
  
  accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed.
  (3) On receipt of any such application for the
  
  grant of a certificate, the certification agency may after such enquiry as it
  
  thinks fit and after satisfying itself that the seed to which the application
  
  relates conforms to the 3[prescribed standards] grant a certificate in such
  
  form and on such conditions as may be prescribed :
  4[that such standards shall
  
  not be lower than the minimum limits of germination and purity specified for
  
  that seed under clause (a) of section 6.]