3. A commissioner’s oath or solemn affirmation of office shall be taken as it appears in Form 1 of Schedule 2.

4. The oath or solemn affirmation of office of a member of a grain standards committee who is not a commissioner and who is not employed in the public service of Canada shall be taken as it appears in Form 2 of Schedule 2.

4.1 The oath or solemn affirmation of office to be taken by each member of a grain appeal tribunal, except a chairperson employed in the public service of Canada, shall be taken as it appears in Form 3 of Schedule 2.

• 5. (1) The following seeds are designated as grain for the purposes of the Act: barley, beans, buckwheat, canola, chick peas, corn, fababeans, flaxseed, lentils, mixed grain, mustard seed, oats, peas, rapeseed, rye, safflower seed, solin, soybeans, sunflower seed, triticale and wheat.

• (2) The grade names and the specifications for grades of grain are those set out in Schedule 3.

• 6. (1) An official sample taken under section 30 of the Act shall be taken in accordance with the Commission’s Sampling Systems Handbook and Approval Guide.

• (2) No official samples shall be taken by means of a mechanical sampler unless it is installed, tested and maintained by the licensee under the direction of an inspector.

• (3) An official sample shall be retained for the period beginning on the date of the grading of the sample and ending

  • (a) not less than six months after that date, if the sample is taken on the discharge of grain out of an elevator into a ship; and

  • (b) [Repealed, SOR/2003-284, s. 5]

  • (c) not less than 20 days after that date, in any other case.

6.1 When a licensed grain dealer or the operator of a licensed elevator requests an official inspection of grain, they shall advise the Commission of the origin of the grain, or of the fact that the grain is of mixed origin, on the appropriate form supplied by the Commission.