CONSOLIDATION

British Columbia Chicken Order

SOR/97-424

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”.

Current to June 20, 2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS British Columbia Chicken Order 1

Interpretation

General

Interprovincial and Export Trade

Levies or Charges

Repeal

Coming into Force

Current to June 20, 2022

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Registration SOR/97-424 August 28, 1997

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

British Columbia Chicken Order P.C. 1997-1239

August 28, 1997

His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, pursuant to subsections 2(1) and (2) of the Agricultural Products Marketing Act, hereby makes the annexed British Columbia Chicken Order.

Current to June 20, 2022

British Columbia Chicken Order

Interpretation 1 The definitions in this section apply in this Order.

chicken means chicken of any class that is under six months of age, not raised or used for egg production and grown in the area covered by the Scheme. It includes any chicken component or any article of food or drink wholly or partially manufactured or derived from chicken. (poulet) Commodity Board means the British Columbia Chicken Marketing Board continued by the Scheme. (Office de commercialisation) Scheme means the British Columbia Chicken Marketing Scheme, 1961, as amended from time to time, established by Order in Council No. 3093/61 of the Lieutenant Governor in Council of British Columbia on December 12, 1961 pursuant to the Natural Products Marketing (BC) Act. (Programme)

General Interprovincial and Export Trade 2 The Commodity Board is authorized to regulate the

marketing of chickens in interprovincial and export trade and for those purposes may, with respect to persons and property regulated within the Province of British Columbia, exercise all or any powers like the powers exercisable by it in relation to the marketing of chickens locally within that Province under paragraphs 4.01(a) to (j) and (l) of the Scheme.

Levies or Charges 3 The Board may, in relation to the powers granted to it by section 2, (a) fix and impose levies or charges on chicken and collect those levies or charges from persons referred to in section 2 who are engaged in the production or marketing of chicken and for that purpose may

Current to June 20, 2022

British Columbia Chicken Order General Levies or Charges Sections 3-5

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 chicken and the equalization or adjustment among producers of chicken of money realized from the sale of chicken during any period that the Board may determine.

Repeal 4 [Repeal]

Coming into Force 5 This Order comes into force on August 28, 1997.

Current to June 20, 2022

