CONSOLIDATION

British Columbia Tree Fruit Order

SOR/79-818

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 Order Granting Authority to Regulate the Marketing of Tree Fruit in British Columbia 1

Short Title

Interpretation

Interprovincial and Export Trade

Levies

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Registration SOR/79-818 November 9, 1979

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

British Columbia Tree Fruit Order

P.C. 1979-3011

November 8, 1979

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 revoke the British Columbia Tree Fruit Order, C.R.C., c. 145, and to make the annexed Order granting authority to regulate the marketing of tree fruit in British Columbia in substitution therefor.

Current to June 20, 2022

Order Granting Authority to Regulate the Marketing of Tree Fruit in British Columbia

Short Title 1 This Order may be cited as the British Columbia Tree

Fruit Order.

Interpretation 2 In this Order,

Act means the Natural Products Marketing (British Columbia) Act; (Loi) Commodity Board means the British Columbia Tree Fruit Marketing Board established pursuant to the Act; (Office) Plan means the British Columbia Tree Fruit Marketing Scheme established and amended from time to time pursuant to the Act and any regulations made pursuant to the Act to give effect to the Plan; (Plan) tree fruit means tree fruit grown and produced in the Province of British Columbia. (fruit de verger) SOR/80-262, s. 1.

Interprovincial and Export Trade 3 The Commodity Board is authorized to regulate the marketing of tree fruit in interprovincial and export trade and for such purposes may, with respect to persons and property situated within the Province of British Columbia, exercise all or any powers like the power exercisable by it in relation to the marketing of tree fruit locally within that province under the Act and the Plan. SOR/85-1106, s. 1.

Levies 4 The Commodity Board may, in relation to the powers granted to it by section 3 with respect to the marketing of tree fruit in interprovincial and export trade,

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British Columbia Tree Fruit Order Levies Section 4

(a) fix and impose by order and collect levies or

charges from persons situated in the Province of British Columbia who are engaged in the production or marketing of tree fruit and for that purpose classify those persons into groups and, by order, 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, and the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of tree fruit, and the equalization or adjustment among producers of tree fruit of moneys realized from the sale of tree fruit during such period or periods of time as the Commodity Board may determine. SOR/85-1106, s. 2.

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