Bill 22 — Second Session, 19Th Legislature, 29 Elizabeth Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 22 the Marketing of Agricultural Products Amendment Act, 1980 (Legislature 19, Session 2)

L19 S2 4061

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1980 BILL 22 Second Session, 19th Legislature, 29 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 22 THE MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1980 MR. PENGELLY First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent Printed by the Queen ’s Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON Title: 1980 (19th, 2nd) Bill 22, The Marketing of Agricultural Products Amendment Act, 1980

Bill 22 Mr. Pengelly BILL 22 1980 THE MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1980 (Assented to , 1980) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act is amended by this Act. 2 The following is added after

section 10.2: 10.3 The Council may make regulations vesting in a pro ducer board the power (

a) to impose and collect a levy or charge on a person or class of persons engaged in the production and marketing of poultry or eggs within the Province, (

b) to use the levy or charge for the purposes of the producer board, including the creation of reserves, surp lus egg removal programs, purchase of poultry or eggs, payment of expenses or losses resulting from the sale or disposal of poultry or eggs, or equalization or ad justment among persons engaged in producing and marketing poultry or eggs within the Province, and (

c) to sell or dispose of poultry or eggs. 3

Section 15 is amended by striking out “and” at the end of clause (a), by adding “and” at the end of clause (

b) and by adding the following after clause (b): (

c) the Council, with reference to poultry or eggs, may delegate in writing any function or duty it has under this Act to a producer board or Canada Board and may authorize in writing the producer board to further dele gate in writing that function or duty, or may direct that the producer board further delegate in writing that func tion or duty to a Canada Board. 1

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter 225 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970. 2 Collection of levy, equalization adjustments and disposal of poultry and eggs. 3

Section 15 presently reads: 15 With the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, (

a) a producer board or marketing commission may, with reference to the marketing of a designated agricultural product, perform any function or duty and exercise any power imposed or conferred upon it by or pursuant to the Canada Act, and (

b) the Council may, with reference to the marketing of a designated agricultural product, delegate to or vest in the Canada Board any function or duty that the Council may delegate to or vest in a producer board or marketing commission under this Act. 1

4 A levy or charge with respect to surplus egg removal or market ing of eggs within Alberta fixed, imposed or collected and the proceeds disbursed or purported to be fixed, imposed or collected and the proceeds disbursed by a Canada Board, the Council, a producer board or agency under

section 2(2)(

a) of the Agricultural Products Marketing Act (Canada) is deemed to have been lawfully fixed, imposed or collected and the proceeds disbursed under

section 10.3 of The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act as if that

section were in force as of April 12, 1957 and those powers were vested in a producer board. 5 This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

4 Retroactive authorization of powers exercised under the Agricul tural Products Marketing Act (Canada) in accordance with a co operative marketing scheme. 2 Title: 1980 (19th, 2nd) Bill 22, The Marketing of Agricultural Products Amendment Act, 1980

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