Vanuatu Commodities Marketing Board Act (Cap. 133).

The Minister after consultation with the chairman of the Board may, by Order published in the Gazette declare a commodity a prescribed commodity under this Act. There is established a Board to be known as the Vanuatu Commodities Marketing Board which shall be a body corporate. The functions of the Board shall be as follows: (a) to secure the most favourable arrangements for the purchase, sale, grading and export of prescribed commodities; (b) to purchase prescribed commodities or products thereof and to sell or export (c) to develop or to assist in the development of the various prescribed commodity industries in the Republic of Vanuatu, including the manufacture and processing of prescribed commodities and related products, for the benefit and prosperity of those industries; (d) to stabilize prices paid for prescribed commodities.