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Sri Lanka Fruit Board Law (No. 30 of 1973) - Sect 16

Powers and functions of the Board

16.
(1) The Board shall have the power to do all such acts and take all such steps as may be necessary for or incidental to the performance of its functions.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1) the Board may exercise all or any of the following powers: -
(a) the regulation and control of the extent and location of any land that may be used for the cultivation of fruit;
(b) the regulation and. control of cultivation practices and the grading of different varieties of fruit;
(c) the regulation and control of the technical standards that have to be maintained in any factory that is or has been established for the manufacture, processing or canning of any fruit or fruit product and the laying down of the standards of quality for the products of any such factory;
(d) the regulation and control of the methods of manufacture, processing or canning of fruit in manufacturing, processing or canning factories and the regulation and control of the location of any such factory;
(e) the control and direction of the marketing, distribution and sale of any fruit or fruit product both within and outside Sri Lanka;
(f) the granting of assistance whether financial or otherwise to any registered co operative society, State sponsored Corporation, Government Department, or any person or body of persons (whether corporate or not) engaged in the cultivation, marketing or processing of any fruit or fruit product;
(g) the creation and promotion of foreign markets for the export of fruit and fruit products of Sri Lanka and the advertisement of such fruit products in' foreign countries;
(h) the manufacture of canned fruit and fruit products for purposes of export and the establishment of trading centres for any such purposes both within and outside Sri Lanka;
(i) all activities connected with the cultivation of fruit by the Board and the establishment of, factories for the processing and canning of such fruit; and
(j) the establishment of its own. departments, agencies, laboratories, experimental and research stations and farms.

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