Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations (SOR/2002-36)
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Regulations are current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2013-04-21. Previous Versions
APPLICATION
2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), these Regulations apply to the marketing of chicken in interprovincial or export trade.
(2) These Regulations do not apply to the marketing of chicken under quota exemptions authorized by a Provincial Commodity Board.
MARKETING PROHIBITIONS
3. No producer may market chicken in interprovincial or export trade
(a) unless a federal quota or a federal market development quota has been allotted to the producer, on behalf of CFC, by the Provincial Commodity Board of the province in which the producer's registered production facilities are located;
(b) in excess of either the federal quota or the federal market development quota referred to in paragraph (a), taking into account any adjustment made under section 6(3) of the schedule to the Canadian Farmers of Canada Proclamation;
(c) unless the chicken is marketed during the period during which chicken produced in the province in which the producer's registered production facilities are located is authorized to be marketed; or
(d) contrary to any rules that the Provincial Commodity Board referred to in paragraph (a) has been authorized by CFC, under subsection 22(3) of the Act, to apply in performing, on behalf of CFC, the function of allotting and administering federal quotas and federal market development quotas.
ENTITLEMENT TO A FEDERAL QUOTA
4. A producer is entitled to be allotted a federal quota if the producer
(a) is allotted a provincial quota under the rules of the Provincial Commodity Board of the province in which the producer's registered production facilities are located;
(b) is in compliance with the orders, regulations and rules of the Provincial Commodity Board in connection with that provincial quota;
(c) is in compliance with the rules referred to in paragraph 3(d); and
(d) is in compliance with the orders and regulations of CFC.
RELATIONSHIP OF FEDERAL QUOTA TO PROVINCIAL QUOTA
5. The quantity of chicken that a producer is authorized to market from a province under a federal quota for the period referred to in the schedule is equal to the quota allotment to the producer for that period by the Provincial Commodity Board of the province minus the quantity of chicken marketed by the producer in intraprovincial trade in the province during that period.
ENTITLEMENT TO A FEDERAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT QUOTA
6. A producer is entitled to be allotted a federal market development quota if the producer
(a) is allotted a provincial market development quota or provincial quota under the rules of the Provincial Commodity Board of the province in which the producer's registered production facilities are located;
(b) has elected to participate in a market development quota program;
(c) is in compliance with the orders, regulations and rules of the Provincial Commodity Board in connection with that program;
(d) has the registered production facilities required to raise the chicken authorized to be marketed; and
(e) is in compliance with the rules referred to in paragraph 3(d).
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