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Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

SOR/94-549

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Registration 1994-08-09

Order Providing for the Fixing, Imposing and Collecting of Levies from Producers in the Province of Quebec Who are Engaged in the Production or Marketing of Hogs in Interprovincial and Export Trade

The Fédération des producteurs de porc du Québec, pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of the Quebec Hog Marketing Order, made by Order in Council P.C. 1979-2717 of October 11, 1979Footnote *, hereby makes the annexed Order providing for the fixing, imposing and collecting of levies from producers in the Province of Quebec who are engaged in the production or marketing of hogs in interprovincial and export trade.

Longueuil, Quebec, August 8, 1994

Short Title

 This Order may be cited as the Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order.

Interpretation

 In this Order,

Act

Act means An Act of the Province of Quebec entitled An Act Respecting the Marketing of Agricultural, Food and Fish Products, R.S.Q., c. M-35.1; (loi)

Commodity Board

Commodity Board means the Fédération des producteurs de porc du Québec established pursuant to the Act; (Fédération)

producer

producer means a person engaged in the production of hogs, sows or boars in the Province of Quebec; (producteur)

sow and boar

sow and boar means a sow and boar produced in the Province of Quebec. (truie et verrat)

Levies

 Every producer shall pay to the Commodity Board in respect of any hogs, sows or boars, as the case may be, sold or marketed by the producer in interprovincial or export trade:

  • (a) a levy of $0.833 per hog; and

  • (b) a levy of $7.14 per sow or boar.

Method of Payment

 The levies imposed pursuant to section 3 shall be paid to the Commodity Board by the producer, by cheque mailed to the Commodity Board at its headquarters in Longueuil, Quebec, by the 15th day of each month in respect of hogs, sows and boars sold or marketed during the preceding month.


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