Marginal note:By-laws

12. The Council may make by-laws

• (a) respecting the calling of meetings of the Council;

• (b) respecting the conduct of business at meetings of the Council and the establishment of committees thereof, the delegation of duties to those committees and the fixing of quorums for meetings of the Council and any committee thereof;

• (c) subject to the approval of the Treasury Board, fixing the travel and living expenses to be paid to the members of the Council; and

• (d) generally for the conduct and management of the affairs of the Council.

Marginal note:Staff

13. Officers and employees necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the Council shall be appointed in the manner authorized by the Public Service Employment Act.

Marginal note:Superannuation

14. Any member of the Council who, under the terms of his appointment, is required to devote the whole of his time to the performance of his duties as a member is deemed to be employed in the public service for the purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act and to be employed in the federal public administration for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation Act and any regulations made under section 9 of the Aeronautics Act.

Marginal note:Report to Parliament

15. The Council shall, within three months after the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Minister a report in such form as the Minister may direct on its activities for that fiscal year and the Minister shall cause the report to be laid before Parliament within fifteen days after the receipt thereof, or, if Parliament is not then sitting, on any of the first fifteen days next thereafter that either House of Parliament is sitting.

Marginal note:Establishment of agencies

• 16. (1) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation, establish an agency with powers relating to any farm product or farm products the marketing of which in interprovincial and export trade is not regulated pursuant to the Canadian Wheat Board Act or the Canadian Dairy Commission Act where the Governor in Council is satisfied that a majority of the producers of the farm product or of each of the farm products in Canada is in favour of the establishment of an agency.

• Marginal note:Plebiscites

  (2) The Governor in Council, in order to determine whether a majority of producers of a farm product are in favour of establishing an agency, may request that each province carry out a plebiscite of those producers.

• Marginal note:Agencies to be bodies corporate

  (3) Every agency established pursuant to this Act is a body corporate.