1. These Regulations may be cited as the Saskatchewan Hog Information (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations.

2. In these Regulations,

“Act”

“Act” means The Natural Products Marketing Act, 1972 of Saskatchewan; (Loi)

“assembly yard”

“assembly yard” means premises to which producers may deliver their hogs; (parc de groupage)

“assembly yard operator”

“assembly yard operator” means the owner or the operator of an assembly yard; (exploitant d’un parc de groupage)

“Commission”

“Commission” means the Saskatchewan Hog Marketing Commission established pursuant to the Act and the Plan; (Commission)

“hog”

“hog” means any member of the species Sus Scrofa L. (domestic pig) produced in Saskatchewan; (porc)

“Plan”

“Plan” means the Saskatchewan Hog Marketing Plan established and amended from time to time pursuant to the Act; (Plan)

“processor”

“processor” means any person engaged in the business of processing hogs or using hogs in manufacturing; (transformateur)

“producer”

“producer” means

• (a) any person engaged in producing or feeding hogs and making them available for slaughter and includes the employer of any such person,

• (b) any person who, under any lease or agreement, is entitled to a share of the hogs produced or fed by a person referred to in paragraph (a), and

• (c) any person who takes possession of any hogs from any person under any form of security for a debt; (producteur)

“small processor”

“small processor” means a processor who, in the previous calendar year, processed less than two per cent of all hogs slaughtered in Saskatchewan according to the reports published by the Department of Agriculture of Canada. (petit transformateur)

3. These Regulations apply only to the marketing of hogs in interprovincial and export trade and to persons and property situated in the Province of Saskatchewan.