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Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act, 1983 (Act No. 43 of 1983)

Notices

Weed Control Scheme - Establishment

10. Supply of weed killers

 

(1) A weed killer required for use in connection with the combating of weeds on a farm entered for participation in this scheme or deemed to have been thus entered, shall on application be issued by the executive officer to the land user of such farm unit.

 

(2) An application referred to in subsection (1) shall be made on a form obtainable for this purpose from an extension office in an area referred to in section 4.

 

(3) Such an application form shall—
(a) subject to the provisions of section 8(4), be completed by the land user by whom the farm unit concerned was entered or is deemed to have been entered for participation in this scheme;
(b) after being thus completed, be lodged at the extension office for the area within which the farm unit concerned is situated; and
(c) be accompanied by the amount payable in respect of the weed-killer concerned in terms of section 6.

 

(4) An application for the supply of weed-killers in terms of section 5(1)(b) of the Weeds Act, 1937 (Act No. 42 of 1937), in respect of which the amount referred to in subsection (3)(c) was paid and that was submitted prior to the date of commencement of this scheme shall, if the weed-killer concerned has not yet been supplied on that date, be deemed to be an application referred to in subsection (1).

 

(5) An amount referred to in subsection (3)(c) shall be paid by means of a cheque, postal order of money order made out in favour of the Director-General: Agriculture.

 

(6) If the executive officer approves such application, he shall—
(a) with due regard to the available quantity of weed killer purchased out of moneys appropriated for the purposes of this scheme, supply the required quantity of a suitable kind of weed killer to the land user concerned as soon as is practicable;
(b) if it has been dispatched by rail, notify the land user concerned in writing of the dispatch of the weed killer thus supplied to him; and
(c) furnish the necessary directions for use and other instructions in connection with the application of that weed killer to the land user concerned.

 

(7) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (6) the executive officer may withhold the approval of an application for the supply of a weed killer to a land use to whom weed killers have previously been supplied in returnable containers until those containers are returned as required in terms of section 11(1)(e) or the replacement value of those containers has been paid as required in terms of section 11(3) and (4).