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National Agricultural and Food Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1969

Government Notice 89 of 1969

National Agricultural and Food Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1969
Citation
Government Notice 89 of 1969
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Public Corporations Act
Date
31 July 2002
Language
English
Type
Government Notice
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Public Corporations Act

National Agricultural and Food Corporation (Establishment) Order, 1969

Government Notice 89 of 1969

  • Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
  • Commenced
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
  • [Note: This legislation was revised and consolidated as at 31 July 2002 and 30 November 2019 by the Attorney General's Office, in compliance with the Laws Revision Act No. 7 of 1994, the Revised Laws and Annual Revision Act (Chapter 356 (R.L.)), and the Interpretation of Laws and General Clauses Act No. 30 of 1972. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for TANZLII.]

1. Citation

This Order may be cited as the National Agricultural and Food Corporation (Establishment) Order.

2. Interpretation

In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise—"Act" means the Public Corporations Act1;1Cap. 257"Board" means the Board of Directors provided for in paragraph 5;"Corporation" means the National Agricultural and Food Corporation established by paragraph 3;"Minister" means the Minister responsible for agriculture.

3. Establishment of the Corporation

There is hereby established a public corporation to be known as the National Agricultural and Food Corporation.

4. Functions of the Corporation

The functions of the Corporation shall be to—
(a)promote agricultural development and the production of food;
(b)conduct or engage in the businesses of growers, planters, dealers, processors, importers, exporters of any agricultural products, including livestock, which the Board may from time to time decide;
(c)establish branches and carry on business either within the United Republic or elsewhere;
(d)acquire by agreement and hold interests in any undertaking, enterprise or project associated with agricultural development or the production of food;
(e)manage the affairs of any corporation, company, firm or other body the interests of which are transferred to or acquired by the Corporation under the provisions of the Act or this order;
(f)do all other acts and things which may be necessary to uphold and support the credit of the Corporation and to obtain and justify public confidence, and to avert or minimise any loss to the Corporation;
(g)do any thing or enter into any transaction which, in the opinion of the Board, is calculated to facilitate the proper and efficient carrying on of its activities and the proper performance of its functions as specified in this paragraph.

5. Management vested in Board of Directors

(1)The management of the Corporation is hereby vested in a Board of Directors.
(2)The Board shall consist of—
(a)a Chairman who shall be appointed by the President;
(b)any other members being not less than five nor more than nine whom the Minister may appoint, and one of whom shall be nominated as its Vice-Chairman.
(3)There shall be a general manager of the Corporation who shall be appointed by the President.
(4)The Board may from time to time appoint on any terms and conditions which it thinks fit any officers and servants of the Corporation who may be necessary for conducting the business of the Corporation.
(5)The Chairman and other members of the Board shall be entitled to any allowances and at any rates which the Minister may from time to time prescribe.
(6)The Minister may make regulations with respect to—
(a)the appointment of and the tenure and vacation of office by the members of the Board;
(b)the quorum, proceedings and meetings of the Board and determinations of the Board.
(7)Subject to the provisions of any regulation made under subparagraph (6) the Board shall have power to regulate its own procedure.

6. Salaries, etc., to be paid out of Corporation's funds

All salaries, fees and any other allowances payable to the Chairman, a member of the Board, the General Manager and other officers and servants of the Corporation, shall be paid out of the funds of the Corporation.

7. The seal of the Corporation

(1)The seal of the Corporation shall be affixed by the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman or the General Manager and witnessed by one other member of the Board.
(2)All contracts, guarantees, agreements, bonds, authorities, mortgages, charges, bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank drafts, letters of credit, securities and any other instruments to which the Corporation is a party, shall be executed on behalf of the Corporation—
(a)by the General Manager and a member of the Board; or
(b)by any other person or persons who may be authorised by the Board in that behalf:
Provided that the General Manager may, in writing delegate his functions under this subparagraph to any officer of the Corporation.

8. Board may act notwithstanding vacancy

Subject to the provisions of any regulations relating to quorum made under subparagraph (6) of paragraph 5, the Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the its membership and no act or proceeding of the Board shall be invalid by reason only of some defect in the appointment of a member or a person who purports to be a member, or, where any regulations provide for the appointment that an alternate member, in the appointment of the alternate member or a person who purports to be such alternate member.

9. Borrowing powers of the Corporation

The Corporation may borrow any sums of money which it may require to meet any of its obligations or for the purposes of its business.

10. Delegation of powers

(1)[Superseded by section 7 of R.E. Cap. 257.]
(2)The Minister is hereby designated as the Minister for the purposes of the provisions of subsection (3) of section 35 of the Act which relates to the accounts of the Corporation.
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