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Perishable Products Export Control Act, 1983 (Act No. 9 of 1983)

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Regulations relating to the Export of Perishable Products, 2025 - effective July 2025

Chapter 3: Role Players

10. Application for trade facility by Exporters and Cold Chain Service Providers and Agents appointed by them

 

(1) Every exporter or cold chain service provider applying for registration as such with the Board, shall prior to transacting with the Board, simultaneously apply online to the Board for the opening of a trade facility and an allocation of a N-Code, that contains such information as required by the Board.

 

(2) Any exporter or cold chain service provider appointing an agent or agents to perform any function required of such exporter or cold chain service provider, shall indicate on the online electronic form, whether the fees, charges and expenses incurred with the Board by the agent so appointed in connection with the performance by the agent of such functions are to be debited to the trade facility held with the Board by the exporter or cold chain service provider making such appointment, alternatively to a trade facility held by the agent so appointed.

 

(3) Any agent accepting an appointment, in circumstances where the appointment, indicates that the fees, charges and expenses to be incurred with the Board by such agent are not to be debited to the trade facility held with the Board by the exporter or cold chain service provider making the appointment shall, if such agent does not already have a trade facility and N-code in its own name, simultaneously with the completion of any online electronic form determined by the Board, make application to the Board for the opening of a trade facility and the allocation to it of a N-code, by way of completion of an online electronic form that contains such information as required by the Board.

 

(4) Any request to the Board for the performance of any service shall be made by completing and submitting a form that contains such information as required by the Board.