Appoint- ment of
Director of
Marketing
and
Marketing
Officer.
Sool, style
and acts of
"Director" means the officer appointed as Director of Marketing; "producer" means in relation to any product the person who produces an agricultural product and any other person who employs such a person;
**regulated product" means any product the marketing of which is regulated under this Ordinance whether produced within the Colony or otherwise.
a. (1) The Governor may appoint, by name or office, an officer to be Director of Marketing and he may further appoint, by name or office, an officer to be Marketing Officer.
(2) The Director may authorize the Marketing Officer to exercise any of the powers and discretions vested in the Director hereunder and to discharge any of the duties required to be discharged by the Director.
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4. (1) The Director may sue and be sued by the name of the Director of Marketing, and may for all purposes be describód [ef. 9 & 10 by that name. Gen. 6.
Director.
c. 21, &. 71.
(2) The Director shall have an official seal, which shall be officially and judicially noticed, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the Director or of any person authorized by the Director la act in that behalf.
(3) For the purpose of acquiring and holding property, the Director for the time being shall be a corporation sole, and all property. vested in the Director shall be held in trust for the Government for the purposes of his office.
(4) Upon and by virtue of the appointment of any person to be Director, the benefit of all deeds, contracts, bonds, securities or things in action vested in his predecessor at the time of his predecessor ceasing to hold office shall be transferred to and vested in and ensure for the benefit of the person so appointed, in the same manner as if he had been contracted with instead of his predecessor, and as if his name had been inserted in all such deeds, contracts, bonds or securities instead of the name of his predecessor.
(5) For the purpose of contracts entered into prior to the commencement of this Ordinance by or on behalf of any person who has been exercising functions analogous to those of the Director at the time of entering into the said contract, such contracts shall be deemed to have been lawfully entered into by the Director and for the purpose of subsection (4) of this section shall be deemed to have been entered into by the predecessor of the Director.
(6) If any question arises as to who is or was at any time the Director or whether a person has been exercising functions analogous to those of the Director prior to the commencement of this Ordinance, a certificate under the hand of the Deputy Colonial Secretary shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes whatsoever as to who is or was the Director or whether a person has been exercising such functions.
5. (1) The Director in his corporate capacity shall have Power to power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy and
acquire
any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind
sgever.
(4) The Director in his corporate capacity shall further have power by deed under his seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messunge or other goods and chattels whatsoever, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Director.
dispose of Property.
6. (1) There shall be a Marketing Advisory Board which Marketing
Advisory shall be a consultative body for advising the Governor upon any Board. matters referred to it by the Governor or the Director,
(2) The Advisory Board shall consist of the Director and four other persons appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gaselte.
(3) The Director shall be ax officio the Chairman of the Advisory Board, but in the event of his absence from any meeting the members present shall appoint any other of its members as Chairman.