Marginal note:Delegation to Boards, etc.

9.1 The Commission may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, enter into an agreement with a province or a Board, providing for the coordinated marketing of dairy products, including the granting of authority for the performance

• (a) by the Board of any powers of the Commission set out in paragraphs 9(1)(f) to (i);

• (b) by the Commission of any similar powers that the Board is authorized by the laws of a province to exercise; or

• (c) by the Commission of any similar powers that it is authorized to exercise by the lieutenant governor in council of a province.

Marginal note:Commission to submit program to Minister

• 10. (1) Each year, following determination by the Governor in Council pursuant to the Farm Income Protection Act of the total amount to be paid by the Minister to the Commission for the purpose of providing protection for the income of producers of milk and cream from the sale of those products, the Commission shall submit to the Minister an outline of the program by which it proposes to carry out its functions under this Act for the following fiscal year.

• Marginal note:Manner of carrying out functions

  (2) The Commission shall carry out its functions under this Act in a manner that will achieve its objects and meet its obligations from the moneys available to it under this Act.

Marginal note:Directions

• 11. (1) In exercising its powers under this Act or the regulations in relation to the importation or exportation of any dairy product, the Commission shall comply with any directions from time to time given to it by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Application of Financial Administration Act

  (2) Subsections 89(2) to (6) and section 153 of the Financial Administration Act apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to a direction given under subsection (1) as though it were a directive referred to in those provisions.

Marginal note:Regulations

• 12. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations regulating the marketing of any dairy product, including regulations

  • (a) providing for the marketing of any dairy product on a quota basis;

  • (b) designating the agencies through which any regulated product shall be marketed;

  • (c) providing for the issue of licences to persons engaged in the production or processing of a regulated product for market, prescribing the fees for those licences and providing for their cancellation or suspension;

  • (d) prohibiting persons from engaging in the marketing of any dairy product, or any class, variety or grade of such a product, in whole or in part, except under the authority of a licence;

  • (e) prescribing the books and records to be kept by persons engaged in the production or processing of a regulated product for market and the information to be furnished by those persons;

  • (f) authorizing the Commission to fix, impose and collect levies or charges from persons engaged in the marketing of any dairy product or the production or processing of a regulated product for market and for those purposes to classify those persons into groups, fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups and to use those levies or charges for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Act;

  • (g) providing for the seizure and disposal of any regulated product marketed in contravention of any regulation made under this section; and

  • (h) generally, for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

• Marginal note:Regulation may be general or specific

  (2) A regulation made under subsection (1) may be general or restricted to a specific dairy product, area, or group or class of persons.