Order Amending the Canadian Chicken Marketing Levies Order: SOR/2023-187

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 157, Number 19

Registration
SOR/2023-187 August 31, 2023

FARM PRODUCTS AGENCIES ACT

Whereas the Governor in Council has, by the Chicken Farmers of Canada Proclamation^{footnote a}, established Chicken Farmers of Canada (“CFC”) under subsection 16(1)^{footnote b} of the Farm Products Agencies Act^{footnote c};

Whereas CFC has been empowered to implement a marketing plan under that Proclamation;

Whereas the proposed Order Amending the Canadian Chicken Marketing Levies Order is an order of a class to which paragraph 7(1)(d)^{footnote d} of that Act applies, by reason of section 2 of the Agencies’ Orders and Regulations Approval Order^{footnote e}, and has been submitted to the National Farm Products Council under paragraph 22(1)(f) of that Act;

And whereas, under paragraph 7(1)(d)^{footnote d} of that Act, the National Farm Products Council has approved the proposed Order, after being satisfied that it is necessary for the implementation of the marketing plan that CFC is authorized to implement;

Therefore, Chicken Farmers of Canada makes the annexed Order Amending the Canadian Chicken Marketing Levies Order under paragraphs 22(1)(f) and (g)^{footnote f} of the Farm Products Agencies Act ^{footnote c} and section 12^{footnote g} of the schedule to the Chicken Farmers of Canada Proclamation ^{footnote a}.

Ottawa, May 31, 2023

Order Amending the Canadian Chicken Marketing Levies Order

Amendments

1 Paragraph 3(1)(a) of the Canadian Chicken Marketing Levies Order ^{footnote 1} is replaced by the following:

(a) in the province of Ontario, 2.19 cents;

2 Paragraph 3(1)(e) to (h) are replaced by the following:

(e) in the province of Manitoba, 2.24 cents;
(f) in the province of British Columbia, 2.04 cents;
(g) in the province of Prince Edward Island, 1.79 cents;
(h) in the province of Saskatchewan, 1.75 cents;

Coming into Force

3 This Order comes into force on June 4, 2023, but if it is registered after that day, it comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The amendment sets the levy rate to be paid by producers in the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan who are engaged in the marketing of chicken in interprovincial or export trade.