Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996) Notices Establishment of Statutory Measure and Determination of Guideline Prices: Levies relating to Wheat, Barley and Oats 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—

 

“Approved silo owner”

means a silo owner approved by the Clearing House.

 

“Clearinghouse”

means the JSE Commodities Exchange or any other body corporate or unincorporated association or department of the JSE Securities Exchange of South Africa, recognized as such by the Registrar of Financial Markets.

 

“Company”

means SA Winter Cereal Industry Agency NPC (SAWCIA).

 

“barley”

means the kernels of the genus Hordeum.

 

“importer”

means any person who imports winter cereal from another country into the Republic of South Africa.

 

“JSE”

means the Johannesburg Stock Exchange or its successor in title.

 

“oats”

means the kernels of the genus Avena.

 

“producer”

means a person who produces winter cereal or a person on whose behalf winter cereal is produced.

 

“Silo receipt”

means a transfer document, utilised as symbolic delivery of the underlying product, issued by an approved silo owner in the form prescribed and, on the terms, set out in the JSE Futures Contract.

 

“SAGIS”

means the South African Grain Information Service NPC, an association not for gain incorporated under the Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973).

 

“The Act”

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

 

“wheat”

means the kernels of the species Triticum aestivum.

 

“Winter cereal”

means wheat, barley and oats.

 

“oats”

means grains of the genus Avena.