CONSOLIDATION

Quebec Milk Order

SOR/94-720

Current to June 20, 2022



OFFICIAL STATUS OF CONSOLIDATIONS Subsections 31(1) and (3) of the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act, in force on June 1, 2009, provide as follows: Published consolidation is evidence

31 (1) Every copy of a consolidated statute or consolidated regulation published by the Minister under this Act in either print or electronic form is evidence of that statute or regulation and of its contents and every copy purporting to be published by the Minister is deemed to be so published, unless the contrary is shown. ... Inconsistencies in regulations

(3) In the event of an inconsistency between a consolidated regulation published by the Minister under this Act and the original regulation or a subsequent amendment as registered by the Clerk of the Privy Council under the Statutory Instruments Act, the original regulation or amendment prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.

LAYOUT The notes that appeared in the left or right margins are now in boldface text directly above the provisions to which they relate. They form no part of the enactment, but are inserted for convenience of reference only.

NOTE This consolidation is current to June 20, 2022. Any amendments that were not in force as of June 20, 2022 are set out at the end of this document under the heading “Amendments Not in Force”.

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS Quebec Milk Order 2

Interpretation

2.1

Application

Interprovincial Trade

Levies or Charges

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Registration SOR/94-720 November 15, 1994

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Quebec Milk Order P.C. 1994-1877

November 15, 1994

His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture, pursuant to section 2* of the Agricultural Products Marketing Act, is pleased hereby to repeal the Quebec Milk Order 1989, made by Order in Council P.C. 1989-1588 of August 24, 1989**, and to make the annexed Order granting authority to the Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québecand the Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québecto regulate the marketing in interprovincial and export trade of milk produced in Quebec, in substitution therefor.

*

S.C. 1991, c. 34, s. 2

**

SOR/89-418, 1989 Canada Gazette Part II, p. 3872

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Quebec Milk Order

1 [Repealed, SOR/2001-16, s. 41]

Interpretation 2 In this Order,

Acts means the Act respecting the marketing of agricultural, food and fish products and the Dairy Products and Dairy Products Substitutes Act of Quebec; (Lois) Board means the Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québec; (Régie) Commodity Board means the Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec; (Office) milk means milk and cream from cows, produced for consumer use in liquid form in Canada; (lait) Plan means the Quebec Milk Producers’ Joint Plan (1980). (plan) SOR/2001-16, s. 42.

Application 2.1 This Order applies in respect of milk produced in the

Province of Quebec and milk referred to in paragraph 3(1)(b) produced in the Province of Ontario. SOR/2001-16, s. 43.

Interprovincial Trade [SOR/2001-16, s. 44]

3 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Board and the Commodity Board are each authorized to regulate the marketing of milk in interprovincial trade and for that purpose may exercise all or any powers like the powers exercisable by the Board and the Commodity Board in relation to the marketing of milk locally within the province under the Acts and a Plan, with respect to (a) persons and property situated within the Province of Quebec, except in respect of milk produced in that Province and marketed in the Province of Ontario pursuant to a milk quota granted by the Milk Commission of Ontario, the Ontario Milk Marketing Board or the

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Quebec Milk Order Interprovincial Trade Sections 3-4

Ontario Cream Producers’ Marketing Board in accordance with the Ontario Milk Order; and (b) persons situated within the Province of Ontario

who ship milk produced in that Province to the Province of Quebec and who have been given milk quota pursuant to this Order. (2) The authority to regulate the marketing of milk in interprovincial trade does not include any power that is exercised by the Canadian Dairy Commission under the Canadian Dairy Commission Act in relation to the marketing of milk in interprovincial trade. SOR/2001-16, s. 45.

Levies or Charges 4 The Commodity Board may, in relation to the powers

granted to it under section 3, (a) fix and impose levies or charges on milk or any

component of milk and collect those levies or charges from persons described in subsection 3(1) who are engaged in the production or marketing of milk and for that purpose may classify those persons into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts; and (b) use the levies or charges for the purposes of the

Commodity Board, including the creation of reserves, the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of milk and the equalization or adjustment among producers of milk of moneys realized from the sale of milk during such period or periods of time as the Commodity Board may determine. SOR/2001-16, s. 46.

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