Marginal note:Grades may be established by regulation

• 16. (1) The Commission may, by regulation, establish grades and grade names for any kind of western grain and eastern grain and establish the specifications for those grades and set out a method or methods, visual or otherwise, for determining the characteristics of the grain for the purposes of meeting the quality requirements of purchasers of grain.

• Marginal note:Coming into force of regulation

  (2) Unless a regulation made under this section expressly provides otherwise, the provisions of the regulation in relation to western grain shall come into force not earlier than August 1 next following the date the regulation is made and the provisions thereof in relation to eastern grain shall come into force not earlier than July 1 next following the date the regulation is made.

• Marginal note:Reduction in value to be minimized

  (3) Any variation in a grade of grain to be made by a regulation under this section shall, where possible and consistent with increasing the acceptance of Canadian grain in export and domestic markets, be made so as to prevent or minimize any reduction in the value of existing grain of the grade to be so varied.

17. and 18. [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 37 (4th Supp.), s. 5]

Marginal note:Grades for grain that is out of condition, etc.

19. The Commission may, by order, establish

• (a) grades and grade names for any grain

  • (i) that is out of condition,

  • (ii) that has been specially binned,

  • (iii) that may be marketed on the basis of its specifications rather than a grade established by regulation, or

  • (iv) that, by reason of its intermixture with another material, would not be eligible to have assigned to it a grade established by regulation; and

• (b) grades and grade names, and specifications for those grades, for any screenings.

Marginal note:Grain standards committees

• 20. (1) The Commission shall, by by-law, constitute a western grain standards committee and an eastern grain standards committee, in this Part referred to as the Western Standards Committee and the Eastern Standards Committee, for the purpose of

  • (a) recommending specifications for grades of grain and selecting and recommending primary standard samples and export standard samples of grain; and

  • (b) performing such other duties in connection with the determination of grain standards as may be assigned to each committee by the Commission.

• Marginal note:Membership of Western Standards Committee

  (2) The Commission shall, with the approval of the Minister, appoint to the Western Standards Committee

  • (a) a commissioner, a grain inspector and a scientist;

  • (b) the chairman of the grain appeal tribunal for the Western Division;

  • (c) two persons nominated by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food;

  • (d) [Repealed, 2011, c. 25, s. 25]

  • (e) two persons selected from among processors of grain;

  • (f) two persons selected from among exporters of grain;

  • (g) twelve actual producers of western grain; and

  • (h) any additional persons not exceeding four in number that the Commission considers advisable.

• Marginal note:Membership of Eastern Standards Committee

  (3) The Commission shall, with the approval of the Minister, appoint to the Eastern Standards Committee

  • (a) a commissioner, a grain inspector and a scientist;

  • (b) one person nominated by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food;

  • (c) four persons selected from among processors and exporters of grain;

  • (d) not more than four persons representative of producers of eastern grain; and

  • (e) such additional persons not exceeding three in number as the Commission deems advisable.

• Marginal note:Chairman

  (4) A commissioner shall preside as chairman at each meeting of a grain standards committee.