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

17. Conducting of pools

 

(1) The Minister may, apart from any pooling arrangements that may be instituted in terms of section 16, arrange that a pool be conducted by a particular body, at a particular location for the purchase and sale of a particular agricultural product or a class thereof and publicise such arrangement by notice in the Gazette.

 

(2) A pool conducted in terms of subsection (1) shall be conducted on the basis that any person who sells to, buys from or participates in any way in such a pool, shall be compelled to sell to or buy from such a pool.

 

(3) The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall prescribe—
(a) the conditions under which the pool shall be conducted;
(b) the dates, times and places when and where delivery to the pool shall take place; and
(c) the manner in which the costs of the pool shall be recovered or the proceeds of the pool shall be distributed.