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Crops Act

2. Interpretation

Edition: 2026-03-27 · In force

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2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—"Authority" means the Agriculture and Food Authority established under the Agriculture and Food Authority Act (Cap. 317);"Cabinet Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for matters relating to agriculture;"co-operative society" means a co-operative society registered under the Co-operative Societies Act (Cap. 490);"dealing in crop" includes collecting, transporting, storing, buying or selling crops or crop products but in the case of food crops, excludes any non-commercial activity;"scheduled crop" means any of the crops listed under the First Schedule and includes such other crop as the Cabinet Secretary, on the advice of the Authority, may declare to be a scheduled crop under section 7;"non-scheduled crop" means any plant other than a scheduled crop that is grown in significant quantities to be harvested as food, or used as livestock fodder, fuel, or for any other economic purpose; and"licensing authority" means the Authority or the county government as the case may be.[Act No. 7 of 2016, Sch.]

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