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

Notices

Establishment of Levy and Determination of Guideline Prices: Levy on Cattle, Sheep, Goats and Red Meat

1. Definitions

Purchase

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—

"abattoir"

means a slaughter facility as defined in section 1 of the Meat Safety Act, 2000 (Act No. 40 of 2000), and where used in context of an obligation placed on an abattoir in this notice, refers to the owner of the slaughter facility;

"agent"

means any person who acts as the agent of the buyer or seller of the designated animals, whether the risk of ownership of such designated animals has passed to such person or not;

"DALRRD"

means the National Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development;

"designated animals"

for purposes of this notice, means cattle, sheep and goats;

"handled"

in relation to red meat, means deboning, portioning, dicing, mincing, cooling or freezing;

"head"

means one designated animal irrespective of its age, size or weight or whether it is sold together with another animal, animals or offspring;

"Levy Administrator"

means the juristic person entrusted with the implementation, administration and enforcement of the statutory levy established in this notice;

"owner"

for the purposes of this notice means, in relation to any designated animal—

(a)	the person liable to pay the price charged by the abattoir for the slaughter of that animal; or

(b)	the person on whose behalf the designated animal is delivered for slaughter, in the event that no price is charged by the abattoir for the slaughter of the designated animal; or

(c)	the abattoir, if the abattoir was the last person to own or acquire the designated animal prior to the slaughter of such animal;

"person"

includes natural and juristic persons, partnerships, trusts, voluntary associations, co-operatives and any other bodies, institutions or establishments, whether incorporated or not;

"processing"

in relation to red meat, means altering the meat, other than cutting, portioning, dicing and mincing such meat, to enhance the meat, and "process" and "processes" shall have a corresponding meaning;

"red meat"

means any carcass or part of a slaughtered and skinned designated animal, fresh or frozen which has not undergone any processing other than deboning, portioning, dicing, mincing, cooling or freezing;

"the Act"

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

"year"

for the purposes of section 5 of this notice, means the 365 days period after the inception of this levy, and every subsequent such period.