**The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing (Amendment) Act, 1970** [Margin: Short title.]

5 Assented to in Her Majesty's name this *25th* day of *March, 1970.* BANJA TEJAN-SIE, *Acting Governor-General.* (LS) No. 6 [Coat of arms: UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE] 1970 Sierra Leone **The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing (Amendment) Act, 1970** [Margin: Short title.] [*26th March, 1970.*] [Margin: Date of commencement.] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— **1.** Section 3 of the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Act (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new section— [Margin: Repeal and replacement of section 3 of Cap. 229.] "3. (1) There shall be established a Board to be known as the Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board. [Margin: "Establishment and construction of Board.] 6 No. 6 *Sierra Leone Produce Marketing (Amendment)* 1970 (2) The Board shall consist of— (*a*) a Chairman and a Managing Director to be appointed by the Minister on such salaries, terms and conditions as he shall think fit; (*b*) seven members (five officials and two non-officials) to be appointed by the Minister, the officials being— (i) the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry, (ii) the Financial Secretary, (iii) the Chief Agriculturist, (iv) the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, (v) the Economic Adviser. (*c*) three members representing the producers to be nominated by the Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources after consultation with the Minister; (*d*) one member to be nominated by the Chamber of Commerce. **2.** Sections 4, 21 and 24 of the principal Act are hereby amended by the substitution of the words "Managing Director" for the words "General Manager and the Assistant General Manager" wherever they occur in these sections. [Margin: Amendment of sections 4, 21 and 24 of Cap. 229.] **3.** Subsection (3) of section 11 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the words "Managing Director" for the words "General Manager." [Margin: Amendment of section 11 of Cap. 229.] Passed in the House of Representatives this *19th* day of *February*, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy.

J. W. E. DAVIES, *Clerk of the House of Representatives.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, *Clerk of the House of Representatives.*