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	EGG AND POULTRY BOARD (PRODUCTION AND MARKETING) LAW, 5724-1963*
	CHAPTER ONE : INTERPRETATION
Definitions.	1. In this Law -- "poultry" or "fowls" means chickens, geese, ducks, swans and turkeys of any breed, sex or age; "hatching eggs" means poultry eggs used for hatching ; "reproduction material" means hatching eggs and newly-hatched chicks; "eggs" means poultry eggs, other than hatching eggs, and includes frozen eggs of any type; "poultry meat" means slaughtered poultry and any part or limb thereof, however prepared or processed (including frozen) and includes live poultry ; "poultry products" means eggs, poultry meat and reproduction material; "breeder" means a person who carries on the breeding of poultry for purposes of breed improvement, reproduction, egg production or fattening and includes a person who deals with incubation, but does not include an individual who breeds not more than ten fowls for the requirements only of himself and his family ; "breed improvement" means the improvement of hereditary qualities of breeds of poultry; "incubator" means a device used for the hatching of eggs; "the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Commerce and Industry.
	CHAPTER Two : THE BOARD, ITS FUNCTIONS AND ORGANS
Establishment of Board.	2. There is hereby established an Egg and Poultry Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board").
Functions of Board.	3. The functions of the Board shall be - (1) to plan-having regard to directives of the Minister of Agriculture as to agricultural planning-the extent of the breeding of poultry for egg production, fattening and hatching and to regulate such breeding in accordance with such planning; (2) to supervise breed improvement; (3) to regulate the production of reproduction material and its marketing in Israel and abroad; (4) to regulate the marketing of eggs and poultry meat in Israel and abroad; (5) to encourage and assist- (a) the processing of poultry meat for marketing, including freezing and canning; (b) the establishment of sorting and packing depots for eggs, including freezing installations; (c) research into the markets and production methods of the poultry industry and the ways of handling the products; (6) to take action to increase the consumption of the products of the poultry industry in Israel and abroad.
The Board - a corporation.	4. The Board shall be a corporation, competent in respect of any obligation, right and legal act.
Composition of Board.	5. The Ministers shall prescribe the number of the members of the Board, who shall not be fewer than forty and not more than fifty and who shall include representatives of the Government, representatives of the World Zionist Organisation-Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel (hereinafter referred to as "the Agency") and representatives of the public.
Representatives of the public.	6. The representatives of the public shall be representatives of the breeders, representatives of the wholesale trade, representatives of the retail trade and representatives of the consumers.
Representatives of the Govern- ment and the Agency.	7. The representatives of the Government and the representatives of the Agency shall together be about one fifth of the members of the Board, and the manner of their appointment shall be prescribed by the Ministers by regulations. The Minister of Agriculture shall appoint from among them the Chairman of the Board, and the Minister of Commerce and Industry shall appoint from among them the Deputy Chairman of the Board.
Representatives of the Agency.	8. The Agency shall be represented by at least two representatives. Its representatives shall be appointed by the Ministers upon the recommendation of the Agency.
Representatives of breeders.	9. The Ministers shall ask breeders' organisations which in the opinion of the Ministers are representative organisations to submit lists of candidates for the Board. From those lists, the Ministers shall appoint not less than half of the members of the Board, giving representation to producers of eggs, poultry and reproduction material, other than persons dealing only with incubation.
	PARTIAL UPLOAD - STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
	LEVI ESHKOL Prime Minister MOSHE DAYAN Minister of Agriculture PINCHAS SAPIR Minister of Commerce and Industry SHNEUR ZALMAN SHAZAR President of the State
	------------------------------- * Passed by the Knesset on the 2nd Kislev, 5724 (18th November, 1963) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 409 of the 20th Kislev, 5724 (6th December, 1963) p. 12; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 468 of 5721, p. 244.

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SOURCE: "Laws of the State of Israel: Authorized Translation from the Hebrew, Volume 18". Government Printer, Jerusalem, Israel (1948-1987), pp. 10-26.

(C) Israel Law Resource Center, February, 2007.