Farm Products Agencies Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. F-4)

Marginal note:Where marketing plan makes allocation

• 23. (1) A marketing plan, to the extent that it allocates any production or marketing quota to any area of Canada, shall allocate that quota on the basis of the production from that area in relation to the total production of Canada over a period of five years immediately preceding the effective date of the marketing plan.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) In allocating additional quotas for anticipated growth of market demand, an agency shall consider the principle of comparative advantage of production.

Marginal note:Employment of staff

24. An agency may employ such officers and employees as it considers necessary for the proper conduct of its activities.

Marginal note:Agency may make by-laws

25. An agency may make by-laws

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

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

• (c) subject to the approval of the Council, fixing the fees to be paid to members of the agency other than any members who are paid salaries, for attendances at meetings of the agency or any committee thereof, and the travel and living expenses to be paid to the members of the agency and the members of any consultative or advisory committee of the agency;

• (d) subject to the approval of the Council, respecting the establishment, management and administration of a pension fund for the members, officers and employees of the agency and their dependants, the contributions thereto to be made by the agency and the investment of the pension fund moneys thereof;

• (e) respecting the duties and conduct of the members of the agency;

• (f) prescribing the duties of officers and employees of the agency and the terms and conditions of their employment including the remuneration to be paid to them by the agency;

• (g) for the establishment of consultative or advisory committees consisting of members of the agency or persons other than members or both; and

• (h) generally for the conduct and management of the affairs of the agency.

Marginal note:Not agent of Her Majesty

26. An agency is not an agent of Her Majesty, and the chairman and the other members of an agency and the officers and employees thereof are not part of the federal public administration.