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

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Establishment of a Statutory Measure: Records and Returns by Processors and Persons dealing in Lucerne Seed and Lucerne Hay

1. Definitions

 

In this Schedule any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act shall have that meaning, and unless the context otherwise indicates—

 

“deal”

means the receiving, buying, importing, exporting and selling of lucerne seed or lucerne hay, whether for the account of the person thus dealing therein, or for the account of somebody else;

 

“lucerne”

means lucerne seed or lucerne hay;

 

“lucerne hay”

means hay produced from lucerne;

 

“lucerne hay dealer”

means a person dealing in the course of business with lucerne hay;

 

“lucerne hay processor”

means a person that processes lucerne hay;

 

“lucerne seed”

means any locally produced lucerne seed;

 

“lucerne seed dealer”

means a person dealing in the course of business with lucerne seed;

 

“private and public cultivars”

means cultivars of lucerne seed in which the plant variety rights vests privately or may be used by the public;

 

“process”

means any process or action whereby value is added to lucerne hay, whether such lucerne hay remains in its original form or not, and “processes”  has a similar meaning; and

 

“the Act”

means the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996), as amended.