Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act (Repeal) Act 2013 (No. 1 of 2013)

Short title. No. 1 2013 Sierra Leone THE SIERR A LEONE PRODUCE MARKETING ACT (REPEAL) ACT, 2013 Being an Act to repeal the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act, to dissolve the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board, to vest the property of the Board in the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Company Limited and to provide for other related matters [ ] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Date of com mencement. No. 1 The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act (Repeal) Act 2013 4 4 ACT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXLIV, No. 37 dated 1st August, 2013 SIGNED this 29th day of July , 2013. DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA, President. LS Passed in Parliament this 20th day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. GAZETTE NO. 37 OF 1ST AUGUST, 2013. No. 1 The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act (Repeal) Act 2013 No. 1 The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act (Repeal) Act 2013 Vesting of assets and liabilities etc. in Company. 1. (1) The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act is hereby repealed. (2) The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board established under that Act is hereby dissolved. 2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), of section 1 all properties and assets which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board for the administration of the repealed Act shall, with effect from the commencement of this Act and without further assurance, vest in the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Company, hereafter referred to as the “Company” subject to all interests, charges, obligations, liabilities and trusts affecting its property and assets. (2) Except as provided in subsection (1) in relation to property, all contracts, debts, obligations and liabilities of the Board immediately before the commencement of this Act shall vest in the Company and may be enforced by or against the Company. (3) All legal proceedings or claims pending before the commencement of this Act in relation to the Board shall be continued or enforced by or against the Company in the same manner as they would have been continued or enforced if this Act had not been enacted. 3. (1) With effect from the commencement of this Act, the employees of the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board as may be specified by the Minister responsible for Trade in writing are transferred to the Company without prejudice to any entitlement to pension, gratuity or other vested or accrued rights from their previous employment and on the terms and conditions of service no less favourable as were applicable to them in their previous employment. (2) A person transferred to the Company under subsection (1) (a) shall be subject to his contract of employment with the company. (b) may accept to continue in the employment of the company subject to the terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between that person and the Company. 2 3 Employees of Board. Repeal of Cap. 229 and dissolution of Board.