An Act to regulate the dairy industry so as to develop an efficient and self sustaining dairy industry that will effectively contribute towards poverty alleviation, household food security and employment creation; establish the Dairy Industry Development Board and provides for its functions and powers; enhance milk production in order to fully utilise the capcity of processing facilities,so as to achieve growth inthe processing of safe and wholesome high value milk products; provides for the processing, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of milk; ensure collaboration and participation of all stakeholders within the dairy industry and provide wider service to farmers inthe dairy industry; pomote self regulation of the dairy industry through the development and use of codes of practice; repeal the Dairies and Dairy Produce Act,1931; and provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.

Date of Assent: 13th April, 2010.

Enacted by the Parliament of Zambia.