Alberta Hog Order

Order Granting Authority to Regulate the Marketing in Interprovincial and Export Trade of Hogs Produced in Alberta This Order may be cited as the Alberta Hog Order. In this Order, Act means The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act of Alberta; (Loi) Commodity Board means the Alberta Pork Producers Development Corporation established pursuant to the Act; (Office de commercialisation) Council means the Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Council established pursuant to the Act; (Conseil) hog means a hog produced within the Province of Alberta and sold or offered for sale for slaughter; (porc) Plan means any plan for the marketing of hogs, established and amended from time to time pursuant to the Act, and any regulations made pursuant to the Act to give effect to the Plan. (Plan) The Council and the Commodity Board are each authorized to regulate the marketing of hogs in interprovincial and export trade and for such purposes may, with respect to persons and property situated within the Province of Alberta, exercise all or any powers like the powers exercisable by each of them in relation to the marketing of hogs locally within that Province under the Act and the Plan. The Commodity Board is authorized, [Revoked, SOR/80-90] in relation to the powers granted to it by section 3 with respect to the marketing of hogs in interprovincial and export trade, to make orders fixing levies or charges and imposing them upon and collecting them from persons described in section 3 who are engaged in the marketing of hogs, and for such purposes, classifying such persons into groups and fixing the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts; and the Commodity Board may use such levies or charges for its purposes, including the creation of reserves, the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of hogs and the equalization or adjustment among producers of hogs of moneys realized from the sale thereof during such period or periods of time as it may determine.