The commodity board may collect levies or charges for Ontario egg marketing, but only on over-quota eggs or eggs with no quota. Anyone who receives eggs must deduct payable levies from the egg payment and send them to the commodity board within 10 days after a written request.
1. In this Regulation, “commodity board” means The Ontario Egg Producers’ Marketing Board constituted under the Farm Products Marketing Act; “eggs” means eggs of a domestic hen produced in Ontario other than hatching eggs. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 83, s. 1. 2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Lieutenant Governor in Council hereby grants to the commodity board, in relation to the marketing of eggs locally within Ontario, authority to fix, impose and collect levies or charges from persons engaged in the production of eggs in Ontario and for those purposes to classify persons into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts and to use the levies or charges for the purposes of the commodity board, including the creation of reserves, the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of any eggs and the equalization on or adjustment among producers of eggs of money realized from the sale thereof during such period or periods as the commodity board may determine. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 83, s. 2 (1). (2) The commodity board shall fix, impose and collect levies under subsection (1) only on, (a) eggs produced by a producer in excess of the production quota fixed and allotted to the producer by the commodity board under the Farm Products Marketing Act; and (b) eggs produced by a producer to whom the commodity board has not fixed and allotted production quota. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 83, s. 2 (2). 3. Any person who receives eggs shall deduct from the money payable for the eggs any levies or charges payable to the commodity board by the person from whom he, she or it receives the eggs and shall forward the levies or charges to the commodity board within ten days after written request therefor has been made by the commodity board. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 83, s. 3.