Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996) Notices Establishment of Statutory Measure: Records and Returns in respect of Maize, Oilseeds, Sorghum and Winter Cereal 1. Definitions

 

In this Schedule any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act shall have that meaning, and unless the context otherwise indicates—

 

"canola"

means the seed of the rapeseed plant Brassica Napus and B. campesfris;

 

"commercial purposes"

means where an income, remuneration or benefit is obtained;

 

"end-consumer"

means a person who consumes or processes grain or oilseeds for commercial purposes, but who does not sell any resulting product;

 

"exporter"

means a person who exports grain or oilseeds from South Africa, and includes a person who arranges or handles the exports in the name of or on behalf of another person;

 

"grain"

means maize, sorghum and winter cereal;

 

"groundnuts"

means the underground fruit of the groundnut plant Arachis hypogeae;

 

"handle"

means receive, store, dispatch or process;

 

"importer"

means a person who imports grain or oilseeds into South Africa, and includes a person who arranges or handles the imports in the name of or on behalf of another person;

 

"maize"

means the threshed and unthreshed product of plants of zea mays indentata, zea mays indurata and zea mays ceratina or one or more of the hybrids of these;

 

"oilseeds"

means canola, groundnuts, soybeans or sunflower seed;

 

"premises"

means premises where locally produced or imported gram or oilseeds is handled and of which the person referred to is the owner or renter or otherwise has control, and where such person has more than one such premises, it shall include all such premises;

 

"processor"

means any person who processes grain or oilseeds, in any manner or process whatsoever, to manufacture maize products, oilseed products, sorghum products or winter cereal products, including bio-fuel and drinking alcohol, with the aim of selling the resultant product;

 

"producer"

means a person involved in the production of grains or oilseeds;

 

"SAGIS"

means the South African Grain Information Service NPC, a non-profit company as defined in the Companies Act, 2008, originally incorporated under section 21 of the Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973)

[Definition substituted by Part B, 1.1, of Notice No. R. 68, GG39627, dated 29 January 2016]

 

"sorghum"

means the threshed ripe seed of plants Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench;

 

"soybeans"

means the seed of the soybean plant, Glycine soya:

 

"storer"

means a person with storage facilities where 500 tons and more grain or oilseeds can be handled for commercial purposes;

 

"sunflower seed"

means the seed of the sunflower plant Helianthus annuus;

 

"the Act"

means the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996) as amended;

 

"winter cereal"

means wheat, barley and oats;

 

"white maize"

means maize of which the endosperm has a white colour by nature; and

 

"yellow maize"

means maize of which the endosperm has a yellow colour by nature.