Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996)

Notices

Establishment of Statutory Measure: Records and Returns by Abattoirs and other Role-Players in the Red Meat Industry

1. Definitions

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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—

 

"designated animals"

for purposes of this notice, means cattle, sheep and goats;

 

"levy notice"

means any notice whereby a levy is imposed on designated animals and red meat, in terms of the Act;

 

"Levy Administrator"

means Meat Statutory Measure Services, the juristic person entrusted with the implementation, administration and enforcement of the statutory measure established in this notice;

 

"processing"

in relation to red meat, means altering the meat, other than cutting, portioning, dicing and mincing such meat, to enhance the meat, and "process" and "processes" shall have a corresponding meaning;

 

"red meat"

means any carcass or any part of a slaughtered and skinned designated animal, fresh or frozen which has not undergone any processing other than deboning, portioning, dicing, mincing, cooling or freezing;

 

"handled"

in relation to red meat, means deboning, portioning, dicing, mincing, cooling or freezing; and

 

"the Act"

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