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• (2) Until otherwise directed by the Commodity Board, all processors in the Province of British Columbia licensed by the Commodity Board are designated as agencies.

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• (4) Every agency shall be required to make a deduction from the grower’s account as a fixed charge on each and every shipment received by it for purchase or marketing of such an amount as may be determined from time to time by the Commodity Board.

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• (6) Every producer-vendor shall be required to make a remittance to the Commodity Board as a fixed charge on each and every bird marketed by him such an amount as may be determined from time to time by the Commodity Board.

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• (11) Any agency designated as an agency by the Commodity Board may make arrangements with any other agency for the processing, packing, storing or marketing of the regulated product over which the first agency has authority by the other agency, either in the name of the first agency or of the other agency, provided that the agencies involved may make such arrangements as to remuneration for such services and the costs of transportation as they mutually agree.

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• (2) Upon seizing any regulated product, the employee of the Commodity Board or such authorized person shall attach a seizure tag or detention tag on, at or near the location of the regulated product being so seized, or shall deliver a notice of such seizure in writing in such form as may be approved by the Commodity Board, to an adult person in, upon, or about the premises where the same are found, or to any adult person who appears at the time of the seizure to be in charge of any place, premises, motor vehicle or otherwise in which or in, about, or near which such regulated product is found.

• (3) The owner of any regulated product seized pursuant to this section may, within 10 days after such seizure, apply to the Board, by notice directed to its Secretary, for a hearing to show cause why the regulated product so seized should not be disposed of by the Commodity Board, and upon such notice being received by the Secretary, he shall arrange for a hearing at the convenience of the Commodity Board, and the regulated product so seized shall not be disposed of until such hearing has been completed, and then only in accordance with the order of the Commodity Board; if notice requesting a hearing has been received, as aforesaid, then upon the owner having been heard, or if no notice has been received within the time limit aforesaid, the Commodity Board may dispose of such regulated product as it sees fit by sale or otherwise, or the Commodity Board may, if in its opinion the offence was committed through inadvertence, return the regulated product so seized to the owner or order the same to be sold through an agency for the owner’s account.

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• (5) Pursuant to this section, any of the regulated product seized shall be placed in storage, or processed and placed in storage, in such a manner as to prevent any spoilage arising out of such seizure, and the costs of such processing and storage shall be deducted from the proceeds or paid by the owner of such regulated product as the Board may direct.

8 Except as provided in this Order, or any amendments thereto, the following prohibitions shall apply:

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• (n) no person shall sell or offer for sale any of the regulated product at any auction or have the same in or about any premise where an auction is taking place or may reasonably be expected to take place, unless specifically authorized by the Commodity Board, and then only in an approved container and marked as specified in paragraph (c), and such regulated product is sold or offered for sale at no less than the minimum price set by the Commodity Board;

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• (q) except as otherwise provided, no person shall display the regulated product in public view unless the same is tagged and labelled and in containers authorized by the Commodity Board as specified in paragraph (c);

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• (u) no retailer, peddler, wholesaler, agency or other person shall by use of labels, tags or containers authorized by the Commodity Board, or otherwise in any way mislead or deceive any purchaser as to the contents of any container to which such label or tag is affixed, or on which any printing appears that has been authorized to be used on labels, tags or containers pursuant to this Order.

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• (2) The Commodity Board shall consider the requirements for the regulated product of all agencies as submitted by them and the Commodity Board may issue quotas and make regulations with respect to the transportation, processing, packing, storage and marketing of the regulated product which in its opinion the Commodity Board may deem are required for the purposes of fulfilling the aforesaid requirements.

• (3) Except as provided by this Order, no person shall be entitled to market, process, pack or store or cause or permit to be marketed, processed, packed or stored any of the regulated product for consumption or resale outside British Columbia in excess of any quota issued by the Commodity Board.

• 4 (1) Subject to subsection (4), no person shall grow, process, pack, store, transport or market the regulated product unless he registers with the Commodity Board and is qualified to, and does, obtain from the Commodity Board annually one or more appropriate licences of the types hereinafter described, and pays to the Commodity Board annually the fee for such licence as hereinunder prescribed:

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• (5) Every licence is subject to cancellation by the Commodity Board, if, in its opinion, the holder of such licence has violated any order of the Commodity Board, or for such other reasons relating to control of the marketing of the regulated product as the Commodity Board may see fit.