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Ordinance, 1997 AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1997 ORDINANCE XLIX OF 1997 An Ordinance further to amend the Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance, 1971 [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 2nd August, 1997] No.F.2(1)/97‑Pub., dated 2‑8‑1997.‑‑The following Ordinance made by the President is hereby published for general information:‑‑ 3. Amendment of section 10, Ordinance II of 1971.‑‑In the said Ordinance.‑‑ (a) section 10 shall be re‑numbered as subsection (1) of that section and in subsection (1) re‑renumbered as aforesaid the words "branded or" shall be omitted; and (b) after subsection (1) amended as aforesaid the following new subsections shall be added, namely:‑‑ (2) In the event of a distributor, dealer, whole-seller, retailer, agent or vendor selling any adulterated or sub‑standard pesticide, the importer, manufacturer or formulator from or through whom the said pesticide has been obtained shall also be guilty of the offence committed by the aforementioned distributor, dealer, whole-seller, retailer, agent or vendor, as the case may be, and be liable to the same punishment: Provided that, pesticide in the same package or label are recovered from the warehouse or store of the importer, manufacturer, distributor or formulator, as the case may be, and established to be also adulterated or sub standard. (3) Any dealer whole-seller, retailer or an agent who has been convicted of not less than two offences under this Ordinance shall be black listed by the importer, manufacturer, distributor or formulator of the pesticide in question.