What Canada Farm Products Agencies Act: National Farm Products Council, Marketing and Promotion-Research Agencies requires
The Farm Products Agencies Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. F-4) is the federal statute under which Canada regulates the orderly marketing and the promotion and research of farm products in interprovincial and export trade, administered through the National Farm Products Council and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. The Act establishes the National Farm Products Council to advise the Minister and to supervise the agencies created under the Act, with the object of promoting a strong, efficient and competitive agriculture and agri-food industry. Part II authorizes the establishment of marketing agencies, each operating under a marketing plan that may provide for the regulation of marketing, the fixing and allocation of quotas, and the imposition of levies or charges on the regulated product. Part III authorizes the establishment of promotion-research agencies empowered to promote the marketing and production of a farm product and to conduct or fund research, funded by levies on the product. The Act provides for inspection and enforcement: section 35(1) makes it an offence to obstruct or hinder an inspector engaged in carrying out their duties, and section 35(2) makes it an offence to knowingly make a false or misleading statement to an inspector. The penalty provisions impose summary-conviction liability for contraventions of the Act, a marketing plan, Council requirements, or agency orders and regulations: under section 37 (marketing agencies) a person who contravenes is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and under section 45 (promotion-research agencies) a person who contravenes is likewise liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, with a one-year limitation period for the commencement of a prosecution. The Act is the governing instrument for any producer, processor or dealer subject to a federal marketing plan or a promotion-research levy on a regulated farm product.
Pillar: Agriculture & Agritech · Authority: Parliament of Canada / National Farm Products Council and Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/F-4/FullText.html
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- Farm Products Agencies Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. F-4), Part I - establishment of the National Farm Products Council to supervise the agencies and promote a strong, efficient and competitive agriculture and agri-food industry.
- Farm Products Agencies Act, Part II - establishment of marketing agencies operating under a marketing plan that may regulate marketing and fix and allocate quotas.
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