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Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996)

16. Control of exports of agricultural products

 

(1) The Minister may by notice under section 13 direct a person who wishes to export the agricultural product or the class of agricultural product to which that notice pertains, to dispose of that product in the manner determined in the notice, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notice.

 

(2) The Minister may in the notice referred to in subsection (1) prescribe for or exclude from such control—
(a) a particular class, grade, quantity or percentage of agricultural products;
(b) a particular date or period of time;
(c) a particular destination;
(d) information on the transactions and transaction costs that may be made public.

 

(3) In formulating recommendations with regard to a direction contemplated in subsection (1) the Council shall have regard to—
(a) the need to encourage some diversity of marketing channels to foreign markets or in respect of different classes of agricultural products;
(b) whether value will be added to the agricultural product before it is exported;
(c) whether the potential exporters have invested from the commencement of this Act in the development of the market to which the exports relate or intend to develop a new market; and
(d) whether the exporters have facilitated or have demonstrated an intention to facilitate access to the market by small-scale farmers.