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Acquisition
of Farm Equipment or Material Act [Chapter 18:23]
As amended up to
February 03, 2006
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Acquisition
of Farm Equipment or Material Act [Chapter 18:23]1
Act 7/2004, 6/2005
(s.26)2.
To provide
for the acquisition of farm equipment or material not being used for agricultural
purposes; to amend section 5 of the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10];
and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
[Date of commencement: 3rd September, 2004 (date of publication in Government
Gazette)]
ENACTED
by the President and Parliament of Zimbabwe.
1 Short
title
This Act may be cited as the Acquisition of Farm Equipment or Material
Act [Chapter 18:23].
2 Interpretation
(1) In this
Act—
“acquiring
authority” means the Minister of Special Affairs in the President's
Office responsible for Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement or any other
Minister to whom the President may from time to time assign the administration
of this Act;
“designated
valuation officer” means a person who is designated as a valuation
officer in terms of section five;
“farm equipment”
means movables used for agricultural purposes on any agricultural land
acquired for resettlement purposes under the Land Reform Programme,
including irrigation equipment not embedded in the ground, tractors,
ploughs, disc harrows, trailers, combine harvesters, pumps not permanently
attached to the land, sprinklers, risers, movable storage facilities
and Modrho tobacco curers;
"farm material"
means material used for agricultural purposes on any agricultural land
acquired for resettlement purposes under the Land Reform Programme,
including seed, fertiliser, farm feed and chemicals intended for the
destruction of any noxious plant or insect or for the prevention, treatment
or cure of any disease, infestation or other unhealthy or unfavourable
condition of livestock, poultry, domesticated animals and plants;
“identify”,
in relation to farm equipment or material or any item thereof, means
include in an inventory compiled in terms of section four;
“Land Reform
Programme” means the Land Reform Resettlement Programme and Implementation
Plan (Phase 2), published in April, 2001 (as re-issued and amended from
time to time), in connection with the programme of acquiring agricultural
land for resettlement purposes which commenced under the terms of the
Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10] on the 23rd May, 2000.
(2) Any word or expression
which has not been defined in subsection (1) and to which a meaning has
been assigned in any provision of the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10]
shall have the same meaning when used in this Act.
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1 As amended by section 26 of the General Laws Amendment Act, 2005 (No.
6 of 2005)
with effect from the 3rd February, 2006.
2 General Laws Amendment Act, 2005 (No. 6 of 2005) (date of commencement:
3rd February, 2006.
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