Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order: SOR/2018-27

Canada Gazette, Part II: Volume 152, Number 5

Registration

February 21, 2018

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Les Éleveurs de porcs du Québec, formerly known as the Fédération des producteurs de porc du Québec, pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of the Quebec Hog Marketing Order^{Footnote a}, makes the annexed Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order.

Longueuil, February 19, 2018

Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order

Interpretation

1 The following definitions apply in this Order:

• producer means a person engaged in the production of hogs, sows or boars in Quebec. (producteur)
• sow or boar means a sow or boar produced in Quebec. (truie ou verrat)

Levies

2 Every producer shall pay the following levies to the Commodity Board for each hog, sow or boar sold or marketed by the producer in interprovincial or export trade:

• (a) per hog whose net weight is at least 65 kg, a levy of $0.0123 per kilogram of “net weight of the hot carcass” as defined in the Règlement sur la production et la mise en marché des porcs, RLRQ, c. M-35.1, r. 281; and
• (b) per sow or boar, a levy of $8.97.
  

Remittance of Levies

3 The producer shall remit the levies referred to in section 2 to the Commodity Board on or before the 15th day of each month in respect of hogs, sows and boars sold or marketed during the preceding month.

Repeal

4 The Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order^{Footnote 1} is repealed.

Coming into Force

5 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order sets the levy rate to be paid by all producers engaged in the production of hogs, sows and boars in Quebec in interprovincial and export trade and repeals the Quebec Hog Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order (SOR/94-549).