Sugar Cane Planters Trust Act 1997 (No. 3 of 1997).

There is established for the purposes of this Act the Sugar Cane Planters Trust which shall be a body corporate. The objects of the Trust shall be to: manage the state lands leased to the Trust and on which sugar cane will be cultivated on behalf of planters; hire the services of contractors for the purposes of land clearing, and land preparation and for planting, harvesting, loading and transporting cane to sugar factories; invest in diversification schemes related to cane production, such as interline growing of specific food crops; maintain the financial control of all operations related to cane production; manage, monies derived form the sales of canes and distribute to planters profits from cane cultivation according to the factory area where the sugar cane is cultivated. The Minister shall appoint a Board of Trustees to manage the Trust and there shall be a Secretary Manage and a technical Advisor of the Trust. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make such regulations as it thinks for the purposes of this Act. (17 sections)