Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996)17. Conducting of pools |
| (1) | The Minister may, apart from any pooling arrangements that may be instituted in terms of section 16, arrange that a pool be conducted by a particular body, at a particular location for the purchase and sale of a particular agricultural product or a class thereof and publicise such arrangement by notice in the Gazette. |
| (2) | A pool conducted in terms of subsection (1) shall be conducted on the basis that any person who sells to, buys from or participates in any way in such a pool, shall be compelled to sell to or buy from such a pool. |
| (3) | The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall prescribe— |
| (a) | the conditions under which the pool shall be conducted; |
| (b) | the dates, times and places when and where delivery to the pool shall take place; and |
| (c) | the manner in which the costs of the pool shall be recovered or the proceeds of the pool shall be distributed. |