CONSOLIDATION

Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

SOR/93-195

Current to June 20, 2022 Last amended on June 21, 2018



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. The last amendments came into force on June 21, 2018. 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 Last amended on June 21, 2018

TABLE OF PROVISIONS Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

Interpretation

Levy

Method of Payment

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Registration SOR/93-195 April 14, 1993

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

The Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of the Quebec Maple Sap and Maple Syrup Order, made by Order in Council P.C. 1993-606 of March 30, 1993*, 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 in bulk of maple syrup in interprovincial and export trade. Longueuil, Quebec, April 14, 1993

*

SOR/93-154, 1993 Canada Gazette Part II, p. 1602

Current to June 20, 2022 Last amended on June 21, 2018

Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

1 [Repealed, SOR/2018-125, s. 2]

Interpretation 2 In this Order,

buyer means a person who buys or receives maple syrup in bulk from a producer; (acheteur) Commodity Board means the Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec; (Fédération) maple syrup means any maple syrup produced in the Province of Quebec and marketed in bulk; (sirop d’érable) producer means a person who owns, leases or otherwise operates a sugar bush in the Province of Quebec and who produces, directly or through or on behalf of another person, maple syrup to market in bulk in interprovincial or export trade. (producteur)

Levy 3 Every producer must pay to the Commodity Board a

levy of $0.14 per pound of maple syrup that is marketed in bulk in interprovincial and export trade. SOR/95-263, s. 1; SOR/2012-19, s. 1; SOR/2018-125, s. 3.

Method of Payment 4 Subject to section 5, the producer must remit the levy payable under section 3 to the Commodity Board at its head office in Longueuil, Quebec, within the time limit referred to in section 3 of the Règlement sur les contributions des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, RLRQ, c. M-35.1, r. 9.2. SOR/2018-125, s. 3.

5 If levies are not remitted by the producer, the buyer

must, if they are situated in Quebec, deduct, from the moneys payable to a producer for maple syrup, the levy payable by the producer to the Commodity Board under section 3 and must remit the levy directly to the Commodity Board at its head office in Longueuil, Quebec, within the time limit referred to in section 3 of the

Current to June 20, 2022 Last amended on June 21, 2018

Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order Method of Payment Section 5

Règlement sur les contributions des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, RLRQ, c. M-35.1, r. 9.2. SOR/2018-125, s. 3.

Current to June 20, 2022 Last amended on June 21, 2018

