The core sampling operation

(1) Subject to any Order made by the Board pursuant to section 29 (2), from and after the commencement this Act, the current price of any load of sugar cane shall be determined from the amount of sugar the factory is expected to extract from the quality of sugar cane delivered by cane farmers to the factory. (2) The amount of sugar the factory is expected to extract from any load of sugar cane shall be determined using a core sampler to take samples of the sugar cane load, which samples shall be submitted to a laboratory for testing and analysis to 32 determine the amount of sugar to be extracted by the factory from that load of sugar cane. (3) The principal characteristics of the core sampling operation shall include the following– (a) payment to cane farmers shall be based on the quality of the load or loads of sugar cane delivered to the factory as determined pursuant to sub-section (2); (b) payment to cane farmers for sugar cane will be independent of factory operations; and (c) any loads of sugar cane delivered to the factory shall be subject to testing and analysis pursuant to sub-section (2) to determine the current price of sugar cane. Funds of the SC- QCA.