GRAINS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ACT, 1970

(1) There is hereby established a body corporate which shall be known as the Grains Development Authority. (2) The Authority shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name. (3) The Authority may, for the performance of its functions, acquire and hold property, movable or immovable and dispose of the property and enter into a contract or any other transaction. (4) Where there is a hindrance to the acquisition of property, the property may be acquired for the Authority under the State Property and Contracts Act, 1960 (C.A. 6) or under the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125), and that Act shall apply with the modifications that are necessary to provide for the vesting of the property acquired in the Authority and for the costs of the acquisition to be defrayed by the Authority.

(1) The governing body of the Authority is a Board consisting of (a) the chairman, (b) the Executive Secretary, (c) one representative of the Ministry responsible for Agriculture, (d) four other members representing farming, business, financial, consumer and any other interests whose representation on the Board will assist its work, and (e) two other members to be nominated by the farmers’ associations. (2) The members of the Board shall be appointed by the President in accordance with article 70 of the Constitution.