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Research Report: Addressing the Needs, Opportunities and Challenges of Cooperatives and Collectively Owned Enterprises in the Poultry and Related Industries promote equity and greater participation by black persons, especially those in rural areas, women, persons with disabilities and youth in the formation of, and management of, cooperatives establish a legislative framework that preserves a cooperative as a distinct legal entity facilitate the provision of support programmes that target emerging cooperatives, specifically those cooperatives that consist of black persons, women, youth, disabled persons or persons in the rural areas and that promote equity and greater participation by its members ensure the design and implementation of the cooperative development support programmes by all the agencies of national departments including but not limited to Khula, National Empowerment Fund (NEF), National Productivity Institute (NPI), Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Public Investment Corporation (PIC), Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), South African Local Government Authority (SALGA) and Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETA’s), and compliance with uniform norms and standards prescribed by this Cooperatives Act, 2005 ensure the design and implementation of the cooperative support measures across all spheres of government, including delivery agencies, and adherence to a uniform framework of established norms and standards that reflect fairness, equity, transparency, economy, efficiency, accountability and lawfulness facilitate the effective co-ordination and reporting mechanisms across all spheres of government through the central conduit of the dti Implications for SEDA and poultry cooperatives: The Cooperatives Act is the legislation which governs the legal functioning of cooperatives and aims to identify support structures for cooperatives. All cooperatives should be familiar with the legalities surrounding this type of entity and the Cooperatives Act sets out these legalities. 3.2.3. Cooperative Amendment Bill: Section 75 The Cooperative Amendment Bill was developed to amend the Cooperatives Act of 2005. The purpose of the Amendment Bill is to: to provide for the substitution and addition of certain definitions; to provide for associate membership of cooperatives to provide for categories of primary cooperatives to provide for national apex cooperatives to provide for the annual submission of information to the CIPC to amend the accounting practices by providing for audit and independent review of cooperatives 27 | P a g e U r b a n - E c o n : D e v e l o p m e n t E c o n o m i s t s
Research Report: Addressing the Needs, Opportunities and Challenges of Cooperatives and Collectively Owned Enterprises in the Poultry and Related Industries to provide for the payment of fees by cooperatives for the amalgamation, division, conversion or transfer of cooperatives to provide for the voluntary winding-up of a cooperative by special resolution to provide for a cooperative to apply for a declaratory order in respect of the liquidation process to provide for the registrar or tribunal to order the winding-up of a cooperative to substitute the advisory board with the advisory council; to provide for the establishment, functions and powers of the Cooperatives Development Agency to provide for the funding and financial management of the agency to provide for oversight and executive authority of the agency to provide for the establishment, composition and functions of the cooperatives tribunal to provide for the substitution of the long title and the preamble (Cooperatives Amendment Bill, 2012:46) One of the other important aspects of the Amendment Bill that may have an impact on the cooperatives sector is that the Amendment Bill provides for the establishment of a Cooperatives Development Agency. This agency could assist cooperatives in terms of operating their business and providing support. Implications for SEDA and poultry cooperatives: the major implication that it would have on cooperatives in the industry will be in terms of auditing and other regulations, including registration, operations of the cooperative, bookkeeping and annual reporting. One of the other important aspects of the Amendment Bill that will certainly have an impact on cooperatives is that the bill provides for the establishment of a Cooperatives Development Agency. This agency could assist cooperatives in terms of operating their business and providing for support. 3.2.4. Meat Safety Act, 2000 The Meat Safety Act (MSA) was passed in 2000 as a measure to control and influence the meat industry in terms of its products and standards. The act is aimed at providing measures to promote meat safety and the safety of animal products, to establish and maintain essential national standards in respect of abattoirs; to regulate the importation and exportation of meat; to establish meat safety schemes; and to provide for matters connected therewith. The act also indicates that a veterinarian, within the Department of Agriculture, will be appointed as a national executive officer to ensure that applications and requests under this act are considered and revised. In addition, the act specifies the functions assigned to provincial executives that are under the jurisdiction of the national executive officer, as well as their revocation conditions. The following rules and regulations are stipulated in the act: animals may not be slaughtered at any place other than an abattoir, with the exception of slaughtering animals for cultural or religious purposes slaughter facilities must be approved through an application process whereby successful applicants will be issued a certificate of registration by the national executive officer 28 | P a g e U r b a n - E c o n : D e v e l o p m e n t E c o n o m i s t s
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