This Act establishes the Cold Storage Commission. The Act consists of 51 sections divided into 5 Parts: Preliminary (I); Establishment of the Commission (II); Financial provisions relating to the Commission (III); Functions, powers and duties of the Commission (IV); Special provisions relating to livestock finance schemes (V); General (VI). The Cold Storage Commission is established as a body corporate. Functions and powers of the Commission are set out in Part IV. They include: (a) purchase at the appropriate prescribed prices all livestock delivered by any person to the works of the Commission; and (b) operate abattoirs and refrigerating works for the purpose of chilling, freezing and storing beef, mutton, pork, poultry, fish and other perishable foodstuffs of whatsoever nature and canning factories and livestock animals processing plants (sect. 31). Section 36 concerns the ownership, possession and keeping of grazers, i.e. means any livestock: (a) of the Commission in the possession of a grazier; or (b) purchased by a grazier out of an advance made by the Commission; or (c) given in security to the Commission by a grazier for an advance made by the Commission or for a debt due to the Commission. “Grazier” means any person who is in possession of grazers and who, in terms of a contract with the Commission, has agreed to deliver them to or hold them on behalf of the Commission. Section 46 of Part VI provides that the Minister may, by Statutory Instrument, prescribe areas in Zimbabwe within which, from and after a date specified in the statutory instrument, the carcasses of all livestock slaughtered for sale or export in any form whatsoever shall be graded immediately after slaughter in accordance with this Act.
Zimbabwe · 1960-01-01