In force date of regulations: As of March 5, 2005*, the date that a regulation comes into force is determined by subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act. The date that a regulation is filed and any specified effective dates are important in determining when the regulation is in force. *Effective November 28, 2023, subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act was replaced. (See subsection 3(5) of

Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2022,

An Act to Amend

Chapter 393 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Regulations Act.)

Part II – Regulations Volume 49, No. 18 September 5, 2025 Halifax, Nova Scotia Published Under the Authority of the Attorney General Contents Act Reg. No.

Page Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act Proclamation, S. 167, S.N.S. 2024, c. 5–S. 2 to 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166/2025 458 Dairy Industry Act Delegation of Powers to Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations–amendment . . . . . . 167/2025 460 Natural Products Act Pork Nova Scotia Regulations–amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168/2025 461 Petroleum Products Pricing Act Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices (dispensed from publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164/2025 458 Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices (dispensed from publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165/2025 458 457

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Part II - Regulations Vol. 49, No. 18 N.S. Reg. 164/2025 Made: August 14, 2025 Filed: August 14, 2025 Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices Order dated August 14, 2025 made by the Nova Scotia Energy Board pursuant to

Section 14 of the Petroleum Products Pricing Act and Sections 16 to 19 of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulations [Please note: Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices filed with the Office of the Registrar of Regulations on and after January 23, 2023, will no longer be published in the Royal Gazette

Part II. Publication of the Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices has been dispensed with by order of the Attorney General dated January 23, 2023, and published on page 63 of the February 10, 2023, issue of the Royal Gazette

Part II. Current and historical Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices are available for inspection in person at the Office of the Registrar of Regulations and can be viewed on the Nova Scotia Energy Board’s website at the following address: https://nserbt.ca/nseb/mandates/gasoline-diesel-pricing.] N.S. Reg. 165/2025 Made: August 21, 2025 Filed: August 21, 2025 Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices Order dated August 21, 2025 made by the Nova Scotia Energy Board pursuant to

Section 14 of the Petroleum Products Pricing Act and Sections 16 to 19 of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulations [Please note: Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices filed with the Office of the Registrar of Regulations on and after January 23, 2023, will no longer be published in the Royal Gazette

Part II. Publication of the Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices has been dispensed with by order of the Attorney General dated January 23, 2023, and published on page 63 of the February 10, 2023, issue of the Royal Gazette

Part II. Current and historical Prescribed Petroleum Products Prices are available for inspection in person at the Office of the Registrar of Regulations and can be viewed on the Nova Scotia Energy Board’s website at the following address: https://nserbt.ca/nseb/mandates/gasoline-diesel-pricing.] N.S. Reg. 166/2025 Made: August 21, 2025 Filed: August 21, 2025 Proclamation, S. 167, S.N.S. 2024, c. 5–S. 2 to 6 Order in Council 2025-241 dated August 21, 2025 Proclamation made by the Governor in Council pursuant to

Section 167 of the Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act The Governor in Council on the report and recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture dated July 31, 2025, pursuant to

Section 167 of

Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2024, the Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act, and 458

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Chapter 235 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1989, the

Interpretation Act, is pleased to order and declare by proclamation that Sections 2 to 6 of

Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2024, the Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act, do come into force on and not before September 1, 2025. L.S. Canada Province of Nova Scotia Charles the Third, by the Grace of God King of Canada and His Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. To all to whom these presents shall come, or whom the same may in any wise concern, Greeting! A Proclamation

Whereas in and by

Section 167 of

Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2024, the Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act, it is enacted as follows: 167 Sections 2 to 109, 118 to 123, 126 to 128, 150 and 151 come into force on such day as the Governor in Council orders and declares by proclamation. And

Whereas it is deemed expedient that Sections 2 to 6 of

Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2024, the Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act, do come into force on and not before September 1, 2025; Now Know Ye That We, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia, do by this Our Proclamation order and declare that Sections 2 to 6 of

Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2024, the Advancing Nova Scotia Opportunities Act, do come into force on and not before September 1, 2025, of which all persons concerned are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. In Testimony Whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Nova Scotia to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Our Trusty and Well Beloved, His Honour the Honourable Justice David P.S. Farrar, Administrator of the Government of the Province of Nova Scotia.

Given at Our Law Courts in the Halifax Regional Municipality, this 21st day of August in the year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty-five and in the Third year of Our Reign. By Command: PROVINCIAL SECRETARY ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE 459

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Part II - Regulations Vol. 49, No. 18 N.S. Reg. 167/2025 Made: August 21, 2025 Filed: August 26, 2025 Delegation of Powers to Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations–amendment Order dated August 21, 2025 Amendment to regulations made by the Natural Products Marketing Council pursuant to

Section 13 of the Dairy Industry Act Natural Products Marketing Council Amendment to the Delegation of Powers to Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations made under the Dairy Industry Act I certify that on August 21, 2025, the Natural Products Marketing Council, pursuant to

Section 13 of

Chapter 24 of the Acts of 2000, the Dairy Industry Act, carried a motion to amend the Delegation of Powers to Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations, N.S. Reg. 136/2001, made by the Natural Products Marketing Council on November 6, 2001, in the manner set out in

Schedule “A”, effective on and after August 21, 2025. Signed at Bible Hill, in the County of Colchester, Nova Scotia, on August 21, 2025. Natural Products Marketing Council per: Danielle Dorn Kouwenberg Danielle Dorn Kouwenberg Manager

Schedule “A” Amendment to [the] Delegation of Powers to Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations made by the Natural Products Marketing Council under

Section 13 of

Chapter 24 of the Acts of 2000, the Dairy Industry Act Subsection 2(1) of the Delegation of Powers to Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Regulations, N.S. Reg. 136/2001, made by the Natural Products Marketing Council on November 6, 2001, is amended by: (

a) replacing the period in clause (

p) with a semi-colon; and (

b) adding the following clause immediately after clause (p): (

q) approving the allocation of raw milk for processing (clause 9(

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Part II - Regulations Vol. 49, No. 18 N.S. Reg. 168/2025 Made: December 12, 2024 Approved: August 5, 2025 Filed: August 26, 2025 Pork Nova Scotia Regulations–amendment Order dated August 19, 2025 Amendment to regulations made by Pork Nova Scotia and approved by the Natural Products Marketing Council pursuant to

Section 9 of the Natural Products Act Pork Nova Scotia Amendment to the Pork Nova Scotia Regulations made under the Natural Products Act I certify that on December 12, 2024, Pork Nova Scotia, pursuant to

Section 9 of

Chapter 308 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1989, the Natural Products Act, as delegated by

Section 3 of the Delegation of

Section 9 Powers to Pork Nova Scotia Regulations, N.S. Reg. 343/2009, carried a motion to amend the Pork Nova Scotia Regulations, N.S. Reg. 123/2016, made by Pork Nova Scotia on June 10, 2016, and approved by the Natural Products Marketing Council on June 15, 2016, in the manner set forth in the attached

Schedule “A”. Signed at East Mountain, in the County of Colchester, Nova Scotia, on August 19, 2025. Pork Nova Scotia per: Kara Chisholm Kara Chisholm General Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Approved, effective on and after September 1, 2025, by the Natural Products Marketing Council at Hardwood Lands, in the County of Hants, Nova Scotia, on August 5, 2025. Natural Products Marketing Council per: Danielle Dorn Kouwenberg Danielle Dorn Kouwenberg General Manager

Schedule “A” Amendment to the Pork Nova Scotia Regulations made by Pork Nova Scotia pursuant to

Section 9 of

Chapter 308 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1989, the Natural Products Act 1

Section 2 of the Pork Nova Scotia Regulations, N.S. Reg. 123/2016, made by Pork Nova Scotia on June 10, 2016, and approved by the Natural Products Marketing Council on June 15, 2016, is repealed and the following

section substituted: 461

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Section 3, these regulations only apply to producers, contract growers, livestock dealers and processors. 2

Section 4 of the regulations is amended by (

a) repealing the definition of “breeder” and substituting the following: “breeder” means a boar, gilt or sow intended to be used for breeding purposes; (

b) repealing the definition of “broker” and substituting the following: “broker” means a person who purchases a hog for resale; (

c) adding the following definition immediately after the definition of “broker”: “Commodity Board” means Pork Nova Scotia, a body corporate constituted under the Plan; (

d) adding the following definition immediately after the definition of “market hog”: “processor licence” means a licence issued by the Commodity Board to a processor to process hogs or pork; 3

Section 5 of the regulations is amended by deleting the words “pork or a hog” and substituting the word “hogs” wherever they appear. 4

Section 16 of the regulations is amended by deleting the word “must” and substituting the word “may”. 5 Subsection 17(1) of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted: “A producer who markets a hog in the regulated area must pay a levy in accordance with Sections 17 to 20.” 6 Sections 18 to 25 of the regulations are repealed and the following Sections substituted: Levy on hog slaughtered or marketed 18

(1) A producer who does any of the following must, on a monthly basis, in accordance with the

schedule set out in subsection (2), submit payment of the levy due together with the marketing report required by

Section 22: (

a) slaughters a hog in the producer’s own facilities; (

b) markets a hog through the booking system; (

c) markets a hog to a livestock dealer or broker; (

d) markets a hog to a processor; (

e) has a hog slaughtered by a processor for a fee, after which the pork from that hog is returned to the producer.

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(3) Despite subsection[s] (1) and (2), the Commodity Board and producer may agree in writing to a marketing report which is submitted on a different schedule. Levy on marketed weanling or feeder hog 19

(1) If a producer markets weanlings or feeder hogs, the Commodity Board collects the levy in accordance with the following procedure: (

a) the Commodity Board invoices the producer monthly for levy due based on past records; (

b) no later than 30 days after the date a producer receives an invoice under clause (a), the producer submits all of the following to the Commodity Board: (

i) each manifest for the weanlings or feeder hogs marketed during the month to which the invoice applies, (ii) payment of the levy due, based on the number of hogs marketed, as documented in the manifests submitted under subclause (i); (

c) based on the manifests submitted under clause (b), the Commodity Board adjusts its record of the amount of levy due.

(2) In subsection (1), “manifest” means a record of a marketing transaction. Contract grower responsible for remitting levy 20 A contract grower is responsible for remitting the levy due for the hogs raised by the contract grower. Debt recoverable in court 21

(1) A fee, levy or charge imposed on a person under these regulations is a debt due to the Commodity Board by that person and is recoverable in a court of competent jurisdiction, in addition to any manner permitted under the Act or regulations.

(2) Any decision by the Commodity Board to recover a debt due to the Commodity Board under subsection (1) requires the approval of the majority of the members of the Commodity Board. Reporting and Records Marketing report 22

(1) A producer referred to in

Section 18 must prepare a marketing report and submit it to the Commodity Board together with their levy payments.

(2) A marketing report must be in the form required by the Commodity Board, and must include all of the following information: (

a) producer’s name; (

b) reporting period covered by the report; (

c) date of the report; 463

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d) name of a contact person and their signature; (

e) total number of hogs marketed, reported by location of marketing. Records 23

(1) A person licensed under these regulations must keep all of the following records at their facilities or operation: (

a) records supporting a report made to the Commodity Board under this Part; (

b) records relating to all transactions in which hogs were marketed for the previous 3 calendar years, including all of the following information: (

i) name and address of all parties involved in the transaction, (ii) class and number of hogs marketed, (iii) date of the transaction; (

c) if the licensee is a producer licence, records relating to the production of hogs for the previous 2 calendar years.

(2) A person licensed under these regulations must submit a copy of records under subsection (1) to the Commodity Board at the request of the Commodity Board, within 30 days of the request. 464