1. These Regulations may be cited as the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Appointed Shippers’ Procedures (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations.

2. In these Regulations,

“appointed shipper”

“appointed shipper” means a shipper in possession of a valid and subsisting certificate of appointment issued by the Commodity Board pursuant to section 4; (expéditeur désigné)

“Commodity Board”

“Commodity Board” means The Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Producers’ Marketing Board; (Office de commercialisation)

“greenhouse vegetables”

“greenhouse vegetables” means tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce produced in the Province of Ontario in a greenhouse or any other enclosure under glass, plastic or other material used for the purpose of controlling temperature and providing protection for growing plants; (légumes de serre)

“producer”

“producer” means a person engaged in the production of greenhouse vegetables; (producteur)

“product”

“product” means any quantity of greenhouse vegetables; (produit)

“shipper”

“shipper” means any person who offers for sale, sells, receives, assembles, packs, ships for sale or transports a product but does not include

• (a) a servant employed by and driving a vehicle owned by a producer or a shipper,

• (b) a railway company, or

• (c) a person who transports the product by motor vehicle as agent of the producer. (expéditeur)

3. These Regulations apply only to the marketing of a product in interprovincial and export trade and to persons and property situated in the Province of Ontario.

• 4. (1) No person shall act as a shipper unless he holds a valid certificate of appointment as a shipper issued by the Commodity Board authorizing him to act on behalf of the Commodity Board.

• (2) No certificate of appointment as a shipper shall be issued to a person by the Board

  • (a) except upon execution between the Commodity Board and the shipper of an agreement in the form and on the terms prescribed by the Commodity Board; and

  • (b) unless that person applies for the certificate by completing and forwarding to the Commodity Board an application in the form set out in Schedule I.

• (3) A certificate of appointment as a shipper shall

  • (a) be in the form set out in Schedule II; and

  • (b) expire on December 31st of the year in which it is issued or upon cancellation of the agreement referred to in paragraph (2)(a), whichever is earlier.