P-23.1 - Act respecting prevention of disease in potatoes

Section 1 Disposition versions

2008-06-12

1. (Repealed).

1984, c. 11, s. 1; 2008, c. 16, s. 42.

1984-06-12

1. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food may, in view of ensuring a sufficient production of healthy seed potatoes of superior quality, provide for the establishment and operation of

(1)  a detection centre the object of which is to detect and discard, from potatoes or potato plants selected for research or propagation, those that are infected with certain diseases, and cultivate specimen plantlets intended for the research centre from those potatoes or potato plants that have been retained;

(2)  a research centre the object of which is to produce fully asepticized plantlets by using, in particular, plantlets received from the detection centre, experiment with and develop varieties of potatoes from these plantlets and cultivate specimens of them;

(3)  a production centre the object of which is to produce the varieties developed by the research centre by multiplying, through propagation by cuttings or otherwise, the asepticized plantlets received from the centre and to supply seed potato producers with them.

1984, c. 11, s. 1.