Agricultural Produce (Vegetables, Fruit and Ground Provisions) (Export) Regulations, 1969

A GRICULT URA L PRODUCE 37 I THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE ACT REGULATIONS (under section 23) THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (VEGETABLES, FRUIT AND GROUND PROVISIONS) (EXPORT) REGULATIONS, 1969 (Made by the Minister on the 24th day of September, 1969) L.N. 486,69 i Amd: L.N. 301172 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Produce 368172 (Vegetables, Fruit and Ground Provisions) (Export) Regulations, 1969. 2. No person shall export any of the vegetables, fruit or ground provisions listed in the Schedule (hereinafter referred to as prescribed produce) unless he has first obtained a certificate or permit from the Chief Inspector of Produce that such prescribed produce is suitable for export. I I 3. No person shall gather, collect or transport any prescribed pro duce intended for export except in such manner and in such con tainers as may be approved by an Inspeotor of Produce. 4.--(1) No person shall leave any prescribed produce intended for export exposed, or in danger of being exposed to the sun or rain, unless such prescribed produce is protected in a manner satisfactory to an Inspector of Produce. (2) No person shall stand, sit, walk, lie or lean upon any prescribed produce intended for export or upon any container containing such produce, nor shall any article be placed upon such produce or upon any container containing such produce, unless that article is intended to protect the produce and is placed in a manner satisfactory to an Inspector of Produce. 5. All containers, packing materials and equipment used to pack, protect, wash, grade, or size any prescribed produce for export shall be of a type approved by the Chief Inspector o Produce and all such containers and packing material shall be new f clean, and labelled or me inclusion of this page is authorized by L.N. 4/1976] 38 THE AGRICULTURAL PR9DUCE (VEGETABLES, FRUIT AND GROUND PROVISIONS) (EXPORT) REGULATIONS, 1969 marked in such manner as may be required by an Inspector of Produce. 6. No person shall pack or export any prescribed produce unless such produce is. in the opinion of an Inspector of Produce, of such quality and appearance, and prepared, wrapped and packed in such a manner, as to be suitable for export. 7. No person shall export, or attempt to export, or pack for export, any prescribed produce which has been condemned by an Inspector of Produce as being unfit for export. 8. Any person who intends to pack or export any prescribed pro duce shall give to the Chief Inspeator of Produce and to the Inspector of Produce for the district in which such prescribed produce is to be packed, not less than three days’ notice in writing of his intention and such notice shall speciQ (a) the hour and date when he intends to pack or export such (b) the wharf or airport from which he intends to export such prescribed produce; and prescribed produce. 9. No person shall pack or export any prescribed produce unless such prescribed produce is packed in a building or packing house approved by an Inspector of Produce. 10. Every owner, occupier or person in charge of any premises, building or equipment used for the storage or packing of any pre scribed produce shall keep such premises, building and equipment in a clean and sanitary condition, to the satisfaction of an Inspector of Produce. 11.41) Where any premises, building or equipment used for the storage or packing of any prescribed produce does not conform to the requirements of regulation 10, an Inspector of Produce may order (a) the cessation of storage or packing of prescribed produce on such premises or in such building or with such equipment; (b) the removal of prescribed produce from such premises or building; or (c) the closing of such premises or building. me inclusion of this page is authorized by L.N. 4/19761 THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (VEGETABLES, FRUIT AND GROUND PRO VISIONS) (EXPORT) REGULATIONS, 1969 (2) Where an Inspector of Produce has made an order under paragraph (l), no prescribed produce shall be received, stored, or packed on such premises or in such building or with such equipmenct until such repairs or alterations as may be necessary have been carried out to the satisfaction of an Inspector of Produce. 12. These Regulations shall not apply to born fide ships’ stores. 13. Any person who acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon summary conviction before a Resident Magistrate, be liable to a h e not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment. Ackee Annatto App!es (and varieties) Badoo Beans Beetroot Breadfruit Cabbage Calaloo or spinach Cantaloupe Carrots Cassava Chochos Cocoas Coconuts Corn Cucumbers Dasheen Egg Plants Escallion Garlic Ginger Granadillas Guavas Guinep Jackfruit Lettuce SCHEDULE Mangoes Melons (all varieties) Naseberries Okras Onions Passion Fruit Pawpaws Peanuts Pears (Avocado) Peas (all varieties) Peppers (all varieties) Pineapples Plantains Plums (all varieties) Potatoes (all varieties) Pumpkins Radishes Shallot Sorrel soursops Strawberries Sugar cane Susumber Sweetsops Tamarind Thyme Tree Tomatoes Tumeric Turnips Yam (all varieties) Yampies (Paragraph 2) 39 (The inclusion of this page is authorized by L.N. 4119761