COTTON: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

COTTON: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

COTTON REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    Regulation

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Application

PART II
REGISTRATION MATTERS

    4.    Registration of growers, traders processors, etc.

    5.    Additional information for registration

    6.    Categories of growers

    7.    Refusal

    8.    De-registration and re-registration

PART III
LICENSING AND PERMIT MATTERS

    9.    Application for a licence or permit

    10.    Issuance of licence or permit

    11.    Types of permits

    12.    Refusal to issue licence or permit

    13.    Revocation and suspension of licence or permit

    14.    Application for re-registration

    15.    Transfer and assignment of a licence or permit

    16.    Dealing in cotton without a permit or licence

    17.    Cotton growing seasons

PART IV
COTTON CULTIVATION AND HUSBANDRY

    18.    Requirement for irrigation

    19.    Good crop husbandry

    20.    Restriction on intercropping

    21.    Prohibition of rationed cotton and carry over seed cotton

    22.    Environmental protection

    23.    Safety and hygiene of persons and premises

PART V
APACKING, QUALITY CONTROL AND WEIGHING OF COTTON

    24.    Packing of seed cotton

    25.    Quality control

    26.    Grading of cotton

    27.    Weighing of seed cotton

PART VI
CONTRACT OF FARMING

    28.    Contract of farming

    29.    Restriction on contract of farming

    30.    Contents of a contract of farming

    31.    Registration of contract

    32.    Dispute resolution

    33.    Financier to keep register

PART VII
MARKETING AND SALES PROCEDURES

    34.    Cotton buying season

    35.    Farmgate price

    36.    Movement of seed cotton

        FIRST SCHEDULE

        SECOND SCHEDULE

        THIRD SCHEDULE

G.N. 35/2022

COTTON REGULATIONS

under s. 75

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Citation

    These Regulations may be cited as the Cotton Regulations.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “ratooned cotton” means a seed cotton crop from re-growth of seed cotton plant from the previous season;

    “side selling” means a practice in which a grower sells seed cotton to a ginner other than the one with whom he had entered into a contract of farming; and

    “vehicle loading authority” means a written authority from a ginner allowing a commercial transporter to load seed cotton at a specific location in the ginner’s zone to their ginnery.

3.    Application

    These Regulations shall apply to any type or grade of cotton grown, produced, imported into or exported out of Malawi.

PART II
REGISTRATION MATTERS

4.    Registration of growers, traders processors, etc.

    (1) Subject to section 32 of the Act, the Council shall keep and maintain a register of cotton growers, traders, processors, importers and exporters for the purpose of—

    (a)    monitoring contract farming;

    (b)    regulating cotton quality;

    (c)    establishing a basis for planning and making appropriate estimates of inputs;

    (d)    controlling the import and export of cotton;

    (e)    facilitating the marketing of seed cotton and cotton products; and

    (f)    dealing with any other matters relevant to the cotton industry.

    (2) The Council shall, upon registration, issue the applicant a registration number and certificate prescribed in the First Schedule.

5.    Additional information for registration

    (1) The Council shall, in addition to the particulars required in the Second Schedule to the Act, request the following information—

    (a)    where the person who owns the land is not the actual cotton grower, name and address of the land owner;

    (b)    the estimated area in hectares of the whole farm, and the area to be planted with cotton on the date of its registration;

    (c)    description of the location of the farm or field in sufficient details to identify the farm, and where available, Global Positioning System coordinates of the farm or field; and

    (d)    any other information that may be deemed necessary.

    (2) The Council shall update the register of growers every year before the commencement of each rain-fed farming season.

    (3) A person who fails to register as provided for in subregulation (2) shall be subject to a late registration fee as the Council shall prescribe.

6.    Categories of growers

    The Council shall register growers in the following categories—

    (a)    small scale for those growing on two hectares or less;

    (b)    medium scale for those growing on more than two hectares up to twenty hectares; and

    (c)    large scale for those growing over twenty hectares of land.

7.    Refusal

    The Council may refuse to register a grower who fails to meet the requirements:

    Provided that the Council may, where it considers appropriate, request the applicant to make corrections to the application in order to meet the prescribed requirements.

8.    De-registration and re-registration

    (1) The Council shall, after being satisfied that the registered grower has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of registration, de-register the grower.

    (2) The Council shall, before de-registration, issue notice of its intention to…