"agent"
means a person who, for the acquisition of gain on his own account or in a partnership, in any manner holds himself out as a person who, or directly or indirectly advertises that he, on the instructions of or on behalf of any other person, purchases or sells agricultural produce or negotiates in connection therewith or canvasses or undertakes or offers to canvass a purchaser or seller therefor, but excluding—
| (a) | a control board as defined in section 1 of the Marketing Act, 1968 (Act No. 59 of 1968), which in terms of a scheme likewise defined, purchases and sells an agricultural product to which such scheme relates; |
| (b) | a person who, in the course of his agency, purchases and sells the agricultural product concerned on behalf of a control board referred to in paragraph (a); and |
| (c) | a local authority as defined in section 84(1)(j) of the Provincial agricultural product entrusted to an agent as defined above, on behalf of that agent at an auction; |