Cap. 447 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

''action plan'' means an approved plan by a producer organisation to meet the criteria for recognition in accordance with regulations made under article 19;

''Director'' means the Director of Agriculture or the Director of Fisheries, as the case may require, and includes, to the extent of the authority given, any officer authorised by the Director, in writing, to act in that behalf for any of the purposes of this Act; ''interbranch association'' means an association made up of representatives of economic activities linked to the production, the trading in and the processing of the product, and may include representatives of any one or more of such economic activities; ''marketed production'' means the products of members of the producer organisation marketed through the organisation; ''market withdrawal'' means the withdrawal from the market of products covered by an operational programme; and ''withdrawal from the market'' shall be construed accordingly; ''measure'' means a group of related actions which together meet one or more of the objectives under the operational programme; ''member'' means a person who, together with other persons, forms, creates or joins a producer organisation; ''Minister'' means the Minister responsible for agriculture and fisheries; ''operational fund'' means the producer organisation account, based on producer contributions and Government funding, which is used solely to finance operational programmes, action plans and market withdrawals; ''operational programme'' means an approved plan by a producer organisation to improve performance of the organisation over time particularly in terms of marketing, product quality and

*This Act has been repealed by Act XXXIV of 2023. environmental conditions;

''producer'' means any person who is involved in the trade of tilling land or tending live stock, or engaged in the fishing industry;

''producer organisation'' means an organisation, recognised by the Director, being a voluntary legally constituted body of producers of particular products or of persons engaged in the agricultural and, or fishing industries, acting together to produce, harvest, store, package and, or market their products;

''producer organisation non-member'' means producers who produce products covered by regulations made under article 19, but who are not members of any producer organisation; ''product'' means the type of agricultural produce and, or fishery products, covered by regulations made under article 19; and ''production'' shall be construed accordingly; "Tribunal" means the Administrative Review Tribunal established by article 5 of the Administrative Justice Act.