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Manufacture and Export of Produce (Regulation) Act (Cap. 121).

Country/Territory
Seychelles
Document type
Legislation
Date
1963 (1986)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Laws of Seychelles.
Subject
Food & nutrition, Fisheries, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Fish products Food quality control/food safety International trade Inspection Authorization/permit Certification Offences/penalties Plant production Agricultural development
Geographical area
Africa, Eastern Africa, Indian Ocean, Small Island Developing States
Abstract

This Act provides rules for the exportation of produce, i.e. any article whatever produced or derived from fishing, farming or agricultural operations which the Minister may by Notice published in the Gazette declare to be produce for the purposes of this Act. Produce must be inspected, branded and an export permit must be obtained for such produce before exportation. The President may appoint inspectors of produce for the purposes of this Act. Inspectors shall examine or grade or both examine and grade produce intended for export and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed. The Minister may also appoint assessors of produce and may constitute panels of such persons for different kinds of produce. The Minister may prescribe by Regulation, among other things: the designations under which various kinds and grades of produce may be exported; quality standards; rules for labelling and packing; and modes of cropping, treating, processing, curing, preserving, storing, transporting and shipping.

Full text
English
Website
www.seylii.org