Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Act 2023
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Definitions | ||
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3. In this Act— | ||
“Act of 2014” means the Companies Act 2014 ; | ||
“agricultural and food products” has the meaning given by section 6 ; | ||
“agricultural and food sector” means the industrial sector consisting of businesses dealing in or relating to agricultural and food products (including primary producers); | ||
“agricultural and food supply chain” means the supply chain relating to agricultural and food products; | ||
“agri-food unfair trading law” means provisions of or under this Act, or of European Union legislation, about business-to-business unfair trading practices in the agricultural and food sector; | ||
“authorised officer” means a person appointed under section 71 ; | ||
“business-to-business” means matters arising between businesses; | ||
“buyer” means any natural or legal person (or group of persons) irrespective of their place of establishment, and any public authority in the European Union, who buys agricultural and food products; | ||
“chairperson” has the meaning given by section 21 ; | ||
“chief executive” means the chief executive officer of the regulator appointed under section 33 ; | ||
“compliance notice” has the meaning given by section 78 ; | ||
“Directive” means Directive (EU) 2019/633 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 20192 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain; | ||
“enforcement function” has the meaning given by section 14 (7); | ||
“establishment day” means the day appointed under section 7 ; | ||
“Minister” means the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine; | ||
“perishable” has the meaning given by section 59 (2); | ||
“premises” includes land, buildings (including dwellings) and any structure (temporary or permanent) on land; | ||
“public authority” means any national, regional or local authority (or association of those authorities) and any body governed by public law (or group of those bodies); | ||
“record” includes all or any part of a written record or anything storing or conveying information (including data and images) by mechanical, electronic or any other means, and includes a copy of a record; | ||
“regulator” means An Rialálaí Agraibhia established under section 8 ; | ||
“sell” includes offer, expose or keep for sale, invite an offer to buy, distribute, barter or exchange (and references to sale are to be construed accordingly); | ||
“supplier” means any agricultural producer or any natural or legal person who sells agricultural and food products irrespective of their place of establishment (including groups, organisations and representative associations of those persons); | ||
“supply trade organisations” means organisations of producers or suppliers, and associations of those organisations; | ||
“unfair trading practice” has the meaning given by section 57 (2)(b). | ||