Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency Proclamation (SOR/2002-48)

ADRIENNE CLARKSON

[L.S.]

Canada

Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

To all to Whom these Presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

Greeting:

A Proclamation

Whereas subsection 39(1) of the Farm Products Agencies Act provides that the Governor in Council may, by proclamation, establish a promotion-research agency with powers relating to one or more farm products, where the Governor in Council is satisfied that the majority of the aggregate of the producers or, where the import trade in one or more farm products is to be included, the majority of the aggregate of the producers and importers, of all of those farm products, in Canada or in the region to which the proclamation relates, is in favour of the establishment of such an agency;

And Whereas the Governor in Council is satisfied that a majority of the aggregate of the producers and importers of beef cattle, beef and beef products in Canada is in favour of the establishment of a promotion-research agency;

Now Know You that We, by and with the advice of our Privy Council for Canada and pursuant to Order in Council P.C. 2001-2352 of December 13, 2001, do by this Our Proclamation

• (a) establish a promotion-research agency, to be known as the Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency, consisting of 16 members appointed in the manner and for the terms as set out in the annexed schedule,

• (b) specify that the manner of designation of the chairman and vice-chairman of the Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency, the manner of appointment and term of temporary substitute members of the Agency and the place within Canada where the head office of the Agency is to be situated are as set out in the annexed schedule,

• (c) designate that the farm products in relation to which the Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency may exercise its powers are beef cattle, beef and beef products as defined in the annexed schedule, and

• (d) specify that the terms of the promotion-research plan that the Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency is empowered to implement are as set out in the annexed schedule;

And Know You further that this Proclamation may be cited as the Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency Proclamation.

Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

In Testimony Whereof, We have caused this Our Proclamation to be published and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Adrienne Clarkson, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

At Our Government House, in Our City of Ottawa, this seventeenth day of January in the year of Our Lord two thousand and two and in the fiftieth year of Our Reign.