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Grain Marketing Act [Chapter 18:14].

Country/Territory
Zimbabwe
Document type
Legislation
Date
1966 (1991)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Grain Marketing Board and to prescribe the powers, functions and duties of such Board; to regulate and control the prices and marketing of certain agricultural products and their derivatives; and to provide for matters incidental to the foregoing.
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Cereals/grains/rice Agricultural commodities Internal trade Institution International trade Food security
Geographical area
Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations
Abstract

This Act establishes the Grain Marketing Board as a body corporate. The Board shall establish and administer in accordance with this section a trading reserve fund for each controlled product or each class of controlled product in accordance with section 22. “Controlled product” means any agricultural product or any product derived therefrom declared by the Minister, in terms of section 29 to be a controlled product. Different agricultural products may be declared by the Minister to be controlled products in different areas. The Board shall trade in controlled products, provide storage, handling and processing facilities for controlled products and maintain stocks of controlled products (sect. 26). Section 32 provides for registration of producers, millers or other persons dealing in controlled products. No person shall sell or otherwise dispose of any controlled product within the prescribed area except to the Grain Marketing Board, but a person who is the producer of any controlled product may sell such controlled product otherwise than to the Board if it is bona fide sold by him for use as seed (sect. 33). A similar rule applies to acquisition of controlled products in a prescribed area (sect. 34). Section 35 specifies controlled products exempted from provisions of this Act. (43 sections divided into 7 Parts)

Full text
English
Website
www.parlzim.gov.zw

References - Legislation

Implemented by

Grain Marketing (Temporary Controlled Products Declaration) (Seed Cotton and Seed Cotton Products) Notice, 2012 (S.I. 106A of 2012).

Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2012

Keyword: Planting material/seeds, Textile plants/fibres, Internal trade, Plant production, Crops/grasses

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Grain Marketing (Controlled Products Declaration) (Maize and Wheat) Notice 2001 (S.I. 235A of 2001).

Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2001

Keyword: Cereals/grains/rice, Internal trade, Agricultural commodities

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Grain Marketing (Control of Sale of Maize) Regulations, 2019 (S.I. 145 of 2019).

Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2019

Keyword: Food security, Food quality control/food safety, Cereals/grains/rice, Internal trade, Agricultural commodities, Plant production, Planting material/seeds, Contract farming

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Amendment of Grain Marketing Act) Regulations, 2012 (S.I. 125 of 2012).

Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2012

Keyword: Cereals/grains/rice, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Liability/compensation, Agricultural commodities

Source: FAO, FAOLEX