The Crops (Food Crops) Regulations
2. Interpretation
2. Interpretation
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—"collection centre" means a place designated and registered by a county Government to serve as a place for—(a)buying and selling food crops or food produce;(b)packaging of food crops or food produce; or(c)meeting growers or growers' associations;"commercial activity" means the collecting, transporting and storing, of food crops or food produce, for trade;"consignment" for purposes of import or export, means the declared lot of food crops or food produce;"County Executive Committee Member" means the County Executive Committee Member in charge of matters relating to agriculture within a specific county;"country of origin" means the country where a food crop or food produce, has been grown, produced, processed or manufactured, as the case may be;"dealer" means a person who is engaged in a commercial activity and includes an exporter and an importer;"exporter" means a person who engages in exporting a food crop or food produce;"food crop" means a crop specified in the First Schedule;"food processing plant" means a facility for processing, re-packaging, packaging, labelling or distribution for sale of a food crop or food produce;"food produce" means the harvested part of a food crop for use as food that has not changed form through processing;"grower" means a small-scale grower or a large-scale grower;"growers' association" means a registered group, association, co-operative society, corporate body, union or federation of growers;"importer" means a person who engages in importing a food crop or food produce;"inspector" means an officer appointed by the Authority as an inspector in accordance with section 27 of the Act;"large scale grower" means a person who grows a food crop in a parcel of land of at least fifty acres;"market" means, a designated place, medium or structure by county or national Government where buyers and sellers interact for trade in food crop or food produce;"marketing agent" means a person, registered or licensed, in accordance with these Regulations to buy or sell food crops or food produce, in wholesale at a designated market, collection centre, growers or growers' association;"medium" means a physical or virtual place where a buyer and a seller, trade in a food crop or food produce, and includes a car boot sale, a commercial internet platform and a commodities exchange;"non-commercial activity" means the collecting, transporting or storing of a food crop or food produce for household consumption;"port of entry" means an airport, seaport or land border point, that is officially designated as such, for the importation of consignments;"port of exit" means an airport, seaport or land border point, that is officially designated as such, for the exportation of consignments;"potable water" means water that has been tested and confirmed by a competent authority, to be safe for handling food produce;"processer" means any person who operates a food processing plant;"small-scale grower" means a person who grows a food crop in a parcel of land of that does not exceed fifty acres;"warehouse" means premises, in whole or in part, that are—(a)where food crops or food produce can be held for wholesale distribution to a wholesaler, retail outlet, restaurant or another entity, that sells or distributes the food crops or food produce, to consumer; and(b)used for the storage of food crops or food produce, in an institution such as a school, hospital, prison or a training institution for instruction in the preparation of food for consumption;"transporter" means a person who engages in the movement of food crops or food produce, when conducting a commercial activity; and"vehicle" means any modern or traditional mode of transportation that is used by a transporter.Source: Kenya Law