Sugar Act, 1978 (Act No. 9 of 1978)

Sugar Industry Agreement, 2000

Chapter 5 : Payment for Cane

140. Analysis of Cane Deliveries
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In order to determine the recoverable value of each consignment of cane delivered to a mill by a grower—

 

(a) individual cane consignments shall be tested in a manner and at a frequency determined by the Mill Group Board concerned from time to time;

 

(b) each mill shall, in consultation with the Mill Group Board concerned, design and operate its mill cane yard and cane carrier systems so as to facilitate the determinations required in terms of clause 53;

 

(c) when cane is delivered to a reloading site, the cane shall, as far as practicable in the light of the quantities of individual consignments, be stored so that the reload vehicle is filled with cane from one grower only;

 

(d) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a) to (c), inclusive, if consignments from any particular growers are, in the opinion of the Mill Group Board concerned, consistently too small for separate sampling or cannot practically be separately sampled for good and sufficient reason, the Mill Group Board may direct that such consignments be grouped for combined sampling and testing and the results of such combined sampling and testing of the cane shall apply to all the cane consignments so grouped within a distribution period referred to in clause 142;

 

(e) as far as practicable, consignments shall be crushed in the sequence of the dates and times of their delivery to a mill (and similarly reloaded on a first in first out basis at reloading sites);

 

(f) storage times in a mill yard shall be kept to a minimum and the Mill Group Board concerned shall monitor the delay of all consignments stored in a mill yard; (

 

(g) a Mill Group Board may annul or adjust any test results which it considers to be irrational;

 

(h) any consignment of cane which for any reason is not sampled, shall be credited a recoverable value in accordance with the procedures provided for in the Official Methods Manual.