British Columbia Mushroom Marketing (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations

SOR/80-647

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Registration 1980-08-11

Regulations Respecting the Marketing in Interprovincial and Export Trade of Mushrooms Produced in British Columbia

The British Columbia Mushroom Marketing Board, pursuant to section 3 of the British Columbia Mushroom Order made by Order in Council P.C. 1978-1544 of 11th May, 1978Footnote *, hereby makes the annexed Regulations respecting the marketing in interprovincial and export trade of mushrooms produced in British Columbia.

Dated at Langley, British Columbia, this 6th day of August, 1980

SHORT TITLE

 These Regulations may be cited as the British Columbia Mushroom Marketing (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations.

INTERPRETATION

 In these Regulations,

“Act”

“Act” means the Natural Products Marketing (British Columbia) Act; (Loi)

“Agency”

“Agency” means Fraser Valley Mushroom Growers’ Co-operative Association; (Agence)

“Board”

“Board” means the British Columbia Mushroom Marketing Board established pursuant to the Act; (Office)

“caterer”

“caterer” means any person who uses the regulated product on his premises in serving food to the public; (traiteur)

“grower”

“grower” means any person who produces the regulated product to which the scheme applies; (producteur)

“licence”

“licence” means a licence referred to in section 10 or 11; (permis)

“marketing”

“marketing”, in respect of the regulated product, means buying, offering for sale, selling, shipping for sale or storage and includes its transportation; (placement)

“peddler”

“peddler” means any person who sells or offers for sale the regulated product on the street or on premises other than a fixed commercial establishment operated by him; (vendeur itinérant)

“person”

“person” means any individual, corporation, firm or partnership and includes the servants, agents and employees of any individual, corporation, firm or partnership; (personne)

“processor”

“processor” means any person who cans, freezes, preserves, dehydrates or changes the nature of the regulated product by mechanical means or otherwise and markets the regulated product so canned, frozen, preserved, dehydrated or changed; (transformateur)

“regulated product”

“regulated product” means mushrooms grown in the Province of British Columbia; (produit réglementé)

“retailer”

“retailer” means any person who sells or offers for sale the regulated product direct to consumers from a fixed commercial establishment operated by that person but does not include a licensed grower who sells or offers for sale the regulated product

  • (a) directly to consumers,

  • (b) to a caterer, or

  • (c) to a processor

if the regulated product is produced by that grower and is sold or offered for sale by the grower at a mushroom plant owned by him or on the property on which the mushroom plant is situated; (détaillant)

“scheme”

“scheme” means the British Columbia Mushroom Scheme established under the Act; (plan)

“transport order”

“transport order” means an order, issued and signed by the Board, in a form approved by the Board, that authorizes the moving or transporting of the regulated product from one place to another place; (autorisation de transport)

“trucker”

“trucker” means any person, other than a grower who uses a truck owned by him to haul the regulated product produced by him, who, in respect of a vehicle, holds or is required by law to hold a public or limited freight licence issued by the Public Utilities Commission of the Province of British Columbia; (camionneur)

“warehouseman”

“warehouseman” means any person, other than the Agency, who stores the regulated product for another person; (entreposeur)

“wholesaler”

“wholesaler” means any person, other than the Agency, who sells or offers for sale a regulated product to any retailer, peddler, caterer, processor or wholesaler or otherwise than directly to the consumer. (grossiste)