Kenya - 2012 - Agriculture and Rural Development

Agricultural Produce (Export) Act

Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Irrigation

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the grading and inspection of agricultural produce to be exported, and generally for the better regulation of the preparation and manufacture thereof. Regulation 10 emphasizes that the minister may make rules, not inconsistent with this act, to provide for the inspection of animals the produce of which is intended for export, and the inspection of the premises in which animals are slaughtered, or in which produce is prepared, manufactured or otherwise dealt with; the inspection of produce, the fixing of grades, the place and manner of inspection and grading and branding of any produce and the manner in which different designations or grades of produce shall be branded or indicated, whether on the receptacle or on a certificate of the inspector or otherwise.

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Agricultural Produce (Export) Act Current Version

January 2022

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the grading and inspection of agricultural produce to be exported, and generally for the better regulation of the preparation and manufacture thereof. Regulation 10 emphasizes that the minister may make rules, not inconsistent with this act, to provide for the inspection of animals the produce of which is intended for export, and the inspection of the premises in which animals are slaughtered, or in which produce is prepared, manufactured or otherwise dealt with; the inspection of produce, the fixing of grades, the place and manner of inspection and grading and branding of any produce and the manner in which different designations or grades of produce shall be branded or indicated, whether on the receptacle or on a certificate of the inspector or otherwise.

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