Tobacco Marketing and Levy Act [Chapter 18:20].

Country/Territory: Zimbabwe
Document type: Legislation
Date: 1978 (2001)
Source: FAO, FAOLEX
Long title: An Act provide for the control and regulation of the tobacco industry in Zimbabwe, the promotion of the export of tobacco from Zimbabwe and the imposition of a levy on tobacco grown or sold in Zimbabwe; to control the use of agricultural remedies on tobacco and tobacco plants or lands; to provide for the establishment of the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board and to prescribe its functions and powers; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

Subject: Cultivated plants
Keyword: Plant production Institution Tobacco Registration Inspection Classification/declassification Internal trade International trade Authorization/permit Offences/penalties
Geographical area: Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations

Abstract: This Act establishes the Tobacco Marketing Board as a body corporate. The Board shall to control and regulate the marketing of tobacco, promote, protect and maintain the sale of tobacco and carry out other functions specified in section 16. The Board shall keep in a form approved by the Minister an annual register of all growers and may keep separate registers for different classes of growers (sect. 24). Only growers who are registered to grow a specific type of tobacco shall sell that type of t
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