Section 56A: Temporary measures during COVID-19 period
This section is inserted by COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020, section 52.
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
56A. Temporary measures during COVID-19 period
(1) The crop year for year 2020 shall start on 1 February 2020 and end on 28
February 2021.
(2) Notwithstanding section 24(4), the general insurance premium and the
provisional estimate for crop year starting on 28 February 2020 shall be recovered –
(a) through the Syndicate on or before 15 July 2020 of the crop year
for which the premium is payable; or
(b) from the insured after 15 July 2020.
(3) Notwithstanding section 40(2), every planter or métayer shall, not later
than such period as may be prescribed after the COVID-19 period lapses, register with
the Board all his cane plantations for the following crop year.
(4) Notwithstanding this Act, a crop year shall, on account of the COVID-19
period, start on such date as the Minister may determine and end on the following year
on such date as the Minister may determine, provided that it does not end not later than
30 April in that following year.