In these regulations any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act, shall have that meaning, and—

"address"

means a physical address in the Republic of South Africa and includes the street or road number or name, and the name of the town, village or suburb and in case of a farm, the name or number of the farm and of the magisterial district in which it is situated;

"assignee"

means a person, undertaking body, institution, association or board designated as under section 2(3) of Agricultural Product standard Act No.119 of 1990;

"consignment"

means  a  quantity  of  feed  products   of   the   same   grade   belonging   to   the same grade or class belonging to the same owner, and which is delivered at any one time under cover of the consignment note, delivery note or receipt note, is delivered by the same vehicle or bulk container or railway truck, or which is loaded from the same bin of a grain elevator into different grades or classes, each quantity of each of the different grades or classes;

"consignment note"

means a consignment note approved by the Executive Officer or Assignee;

"container"

means a bag or bulk container in the case of milled products and bale in the case of hay;

"Department"

means the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development;

"Executive Officer"

means the officer designated under section 2 (1) of the Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990):

"feed products"

means—

"Food Business Operator"

(FBO) means the person or persons responsible for ensuring that the prescribed requirements of these regulations are met within the food business under his or her control and include both the management of the food business as well as the person with overall authority on site or in the specific establishment;

"Food Business Operator code"

means an alpha-numeric code which needs to be uniquely identified and has been registered with the Executive Officer of the Act by each responsible person (FBO) producing or handling in any way products of plant origin destined for the export market. Examples include farms, fields, processing facilities, storage units, transportation, etc.;

"inspector"

means the Executive Officer or an officer under his control, or an Assignee or an employee of an Assignee;

"ISO"

means International Organization for Standardization;

"National Reference aboratory"

means an official laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and the Perishable Products Export Control Board (PPECB) that has been nominated in writing by the Executive Officer for the testing of compliance as envisaged in terms of regulations 6(1) and 7(1);

"Officially Recognized aboratories"

means any laboratory that is not a National Reference Laboratory and that is nominated by the Executive Officer in writing as being suitable or required for the testing of compliance as envisaged in terms of regulations 6(1) and 7(1); and

"the Act"

means the Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act 119 of 1990).