Section 15: Contract

15. Contract (1) Where a cultivator intends to supply green leaf or leaf tobacco to a producer, the cultivator and the producer shall enter into a contract in such form and manner as may be prescribed. (2) Every métayer shall enter into a contract, in such form as may be prescribed, with the cultivator on whose land he cultivates tea. (3) A contract shall be drawn up in 3 originals and forwarded by the parties to NAPRO for registration. (4) NAPRO shall, after registering a contract, keep one original for record purposes and return the other originals to the parties. (5) Except with the written authorisation of NAPRO— (a) no contract shall be made for a period exceeding one year; (b) no tea contract shall be entered into for any crop year after 15 August in that contractual tea year; (c) no tobacco contract shall be entered into for any crop year after 15 April in that contractual tobacco year; (d) every contract entered into for any crop year shall be forwarded to NAPRO for registration not later than 31 May, in the case of a tobacco contract, and 31 August, in the case of a tea contract, in the respective contractual years; and N2A – 9 [Issue 5] National Agricultural Products Regulatory Office Act (e) no new contract shall be entered into before the expiry of an existing one.