DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE R. No. 1420… 26 November 1999 GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS ACT, 1997 (ACT No. 15 OF 1997) REGULATIONS The Minister of Agriculture, acting under section 20 of the Genetically Modified Organisms Act, 1997 (Act No. 15 of 1997), hereby – (a) makes the regulations set out in the Schedule hereto; and (b) determines that the said regulations shall come into operation on 1 December 1999. SCHEDULE Definitions 1. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise indicates, any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned thereto in the Act, shall have that meaning and – "activity" means work undertaken with regard to the development, production, use and application of genetically modified organisms; "facility" means any place where organisms are being genetically modified under conditions of contained use; "the Act" means the Genetically Modified Organisms Act, 1997 (Act No. 15 of 1997); and "the guidelines" ...