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

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Establishment of Statutory Measure - Records and Returns in respect of Maize Products and Wheaten Products

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—

 

"commercial purposes"

means where an income, remuneration or other benefit is obtained;

 

"exporter"

means a person who exports maize products or wheaten products from South Africa, and this includes a person who arranges or handles the exports in the name of or on behalf of another person;

 

"importer"

means a person who imports maize products or wheaten products into South Africa, and this includes a person who arranges or handles the imports in the name of or on behalf of another person;

 

"maize"

means the threshed and unthreshed product of plants of Zea mays indentata, Zea mays indurata and Zea mays ceratina or one or more of the hybrids of these, irrespective whether it is classified as white maize or yellow maize;

 

"maize product"

means the following products derived from maize:

Maize Chop

Maize Grits

Maize Rice

Samp

Sifted Maize Meal

Special Maize Meal

Super Maize Meal

Unsifted Maize Meal;

 

"manufacturer"

means a person who, for own use or for commercial purposes, manufactures or processes maize products or wheaten products, and this includes a person who does so in the name of or on behalf of another person;

 

"premises"

means premises where local or imported maize products or wheaten products are manufactured or dispatched from and of which the person referred to is the owner or renter or otherwise has control, and where such person has more than one such premises, it shall include all such premises;

 

"registered VAT vendor"

means any person or entity that is registered as a vendor by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) in terms of the legislation pertaining to Value Added Tax and who has to submit returns for that purpose to SARS;

 

"SAGIS"

means the South African Grain Information Services, a company not for gain incorporated under section 21 of the Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973);

 

"the Act"

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

 

"wheat"

means the threshed or unthreshed kernels of the species Triticum aestivum;

 

"wheaten product"

means the following products derived from wheat:

Brown Pan Baked Bread (400g/600g/700g/other)

White Pan Baked Bread (400g/600g/700g/other)

Whole Wheat Pan Baked Bread (400g/600g/700g/other)

Other Pan Baked Bread

Wheat Bran

Wheat Meal

Brown Bread Flour

Cake Flour

Other Bread Flour

Self-Raising Flour

White Bread Flour