Agricultural Marketing Programs Act

Marginal note:Related producers

• 3 (1) Producers are related for the purposes of this Act if they do not deal with each other at arm’s length.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (2) In the absence of proof to the contrary, a producer is presumed to be related to another producer in any of the following circumstances:

  • (a) the producer controls, directly or indirectly in any manner, the other producer;

  • (b) the producer is controlled, directly or indirectly in any manner, by the same person or group of persons as the other producer;

  • (c) the producer carries on a farming operation in partnership with the other producer;

  • (d) the producer shares any management services, administrative services, equipment, facilities or overhead expenses of a farming operation with the other producer, but is not in partnership with that other producer;

  • (e) any other circumstances set out in the regulations.

• Definition of group of persons

  (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), group of persons means a producer that is a partnership, cooperative or other association of persons.