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Sugar Act, 1978 (Act No. 9 of 1978)

Sugar Industry Agreement, 2000

Chapter 3 : Production of Cane

82 - 86. Varieties of Cane

 

82. On or before 31 March in each year the South African Sugar Association shall cause to be published a notice in the Gazette which shall specify in respect of each control area or respective parts of each control area the varieties of cane approved by the South African Sugar Association for planting and such notice shall come into force on 1 April following the date of publication and shall remain in force until the following 31 March.

 

83. No grower shall at any time plant cane other than a variety of cane at that time approved by the South African Sugar Association for planting in the relevant control area or part thereof in which the grower's land is situated, in terms of the South African Sugar Association's said notice then in force.

 

84. A grower who plants land to an approved variety of cane shall, in the event of the approval being withdrawn in respect of the control area or part of a control area concerned, but subject to a right of appeal to the Administration Board, eradicate the cane within the period and in the manner determined by the relative Local Pest, Disease and Variety Control Committee and laid down in a written order duly served on him or her.

 

85. Save during the period determined by the Local Pest, Disease and Variety Control Committee for the eradication of a previously approved variety of cane, no grower shall deliver to a mill and no mill shall knowingly accept delivery from a grower of a variety of cane which is not, in the year of delivery, an approved variety for planting in the control area or part of the control area in which the grower's land is situated.

 

86. Any cane which is not a variety duly approved for planting in the control area concerned or part thereof and any cane which is growing on a grower's land after the expiration of the period determined for the eradication thereof in terms of an order referred to in clause 84, shall be deemed to be diseased sugar cane to which the provisions of clauses 79, 80 and 81 shall mutatis mutandis apply.