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Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Marketing Plan

made under

Section 11 of the

Natural Products Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 308

O.I.C. 82-1416 (November 23, 1982), N.S. Reg. 239/1982

amended to O.I.C. 2025-119 (effective April 22, 2025), N.S. Reg. 80/2025

Table of Contents

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Part I

Citation

Definitions

Purposes of Plan

Recommendation to discontinue Plan

Powers delegated to Commodity Board by Council under subsection 6(2) of Act

Regulation-making powers delegated to Commodity Board by Council under clause

11(

d) of the Act

Council retains authority to exercise powers

Composition of Commodity Board

Election or appointment of Board membership

Term of office of Board member

Board operating year and annual general meeting

Notice of meetings

Election of Chair and Vice-Chair of Board

Notice of Board meeting

If Chair absent from Board meeting

Quorum for Board meetings

Removal of Board member from office

Acts of Board valid despite irregularity or temporary vacancy

Copies of Board records to Council

Board financial statements and other annual reporting

Requirement to hold licence or pullet quota certificate

Suspension, revocation and refusal to renew licence

Requirement to register, provide information

Part II

Quota system

Licences

Levies

Sales verification

General

Part I

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Marketing Plan.

Definitions

2 In these regulations,

“Act” means the Natural Products Act ;

“Agency” means the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency established under the Farm

Products Agencies Act (Canada);

“annual general meeting” means an annual general meeting of pullet producers and

licensed egg producers, as required by this Plan;

“Commodity Board” or “Board” means the Nova Scotia Egg Producers, which is

continued under the name Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia;

“Council” means the Natural Products Marketing Council;

“egg” means an egg of a hen;

“ Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Pullet Regulations ” means the Egg Farmers of Nova

Scotia Pullet Regulations made under the Act;

“Egg Regulations” means the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Egg Regulations made

under the Act;

“egg quota certificate” means a certificate issued by the Board under the Egg

Regulations indicating the maximum number of layers that the producer is entitled

to use in producing eggs;

“egg quota leasing certificate” means a certificate issued by the Board under the

Egg Regulations indicating the maximum number of layers that the specialty

licensee is entitled to use in producing eggs;

“facility” means the building, land, fixture or laying facility used by a person for

egg production, grading or processing, or for pullet production;

“grading” means sorting and classifying eggs;

“grader” means a person designated as a grader under subsection 13(3) of the

Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act ;

“grader licence” means a licence issued by the Board that allows the holder to

grade eggs;

“hen” means a female of any class of domestic fowl belonging to the species

Gallus domesticus ;

“heritage licence” means a licence issued by the Board to a person who has

produced and marketed eggs in the Province without holding egg quota in every

year since July 25, 1984, that allows the holder to produce eggs;

“layer” means a laying hen;

“laying facility” means an area within a facility that is used to shelter layers;

“laying hen” means a hen that is 19 weeks of age or older;

“licence” means a licence issued by the Board to authorize a person to engage in an

activity specified in

Section 20 for which a licence is required;

“licensed egg producer” means an egg producer holding a producer licence issued

by the Commodity Board under the Egg Regulations;

“marketing” includes advertising, buying, selling, storing, packing, transporting,

shipping, pricing, processing, shipping for sale or storage, offering for sale and any

other act necessary to prepare eggs and pullets in a form, or make them available at

a place and time, for purchase, consumption or use, and also includes sale by

peddlers, hawkers and traders;

“marketing licence” means a processor licence or grader licence issued under the

Egg Regulations;

“person” means all of the following:

(

i) a natural person,

(ii) a corporation, a company or other body corporate,

(iii) a partnership,

(iv) a trust or estate;

“Plan” means the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Marketing Plan;

“processing” includes breaking, filtering, blending, heat treating, stabilizing,

mixing, cooling, freezing or drying eggs;

“processor” means a person engaged in processing eggs;

“processor licence” means a licence issued by the Board to a processor that allows

the processor to process eggs;

“proclamation” means the Canadian Egg Agency Proclamation issued under the

Farm Products Marketing Agencies Act (Canada);

“producer” means a person engaged in producing eggs or pullets in the regulated

area;

“producer licence” means a licence issued to a person who holds egg quota that

allows the person to produce eggs;

“producing licence” means a producer licence, specialty licence or heritage licence;

“pullet” means a hen that is less than 19 weeks of age and has been produced for

the purpose of laying eggs for human consumption;

“Pullet Placement Permit” means a permit issued to a producer by the Board that

authorizes the producer to place pullets or layers in their facility;

“pullet producer” means a pullet producer holding a pullet quota certificate issued

by the Commodity Board under the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Pullet

Regulations ;

“pullet quota certificate” means a certificate issued by the Board under the Egg

Farmers of Nova Scotia Pullet Regulations indicating the amount of pullets a

producer is entitled to grow;

“quota” means

(

i) in reference to egg production, the maximum number of layers that

the holder is entitled to use in producing eggs,

(ii) in reference to pullet production, the maximum number of pullets

that a producer is entitled to grow in their facility;

“regulated area” means all of the Province;

“specialty eggs” means any of the following types of eggs:

(

i) free run,

(ii) free range,

(iii) organic,

(iv) any other type of egg designated by the Board as a specialty egg;

“specialty licence” means a licence issued by the Board to a person that allows that

person to produce specialty eggs.

Purposes of Plan

3 The purposes of the Plan are to promote and regulate egg production and marketing in

Nova Scotia, and in particular to

(

a) provide for a supply of eggs in volumes agreed upon with the Agency or an

agency of a provincial government; and

(

b) establish a framework for the Commodity Board to administer the Plan

through activities including

(

i) setting quotas for egg producers,

(ii) setting quotas for pullet producers,

(iii) facilitating cooperation with marketing boards, marketing

commissions or marketing agencies established by the Government

of Canada or any province in Canada for the purpose of producing

and marketing eggs, and

(iv) fixing fair or minimum market prices to be paid to a producer for

eggs of any class, variety, grade, or size.

Recommendation to discontinue Plan

(1) If at least 50% of the pullet producers and licensed egg producers sign a request to

vote on discontinuing the Plan and submit the request to the Council, the Council

must submit the question of continuing the Plan to a vote of the pullet producers

and licensed egg producers and, if a majority satisfactory to the Council do not

vote in support of the Plan, the Council may recommend that the Plan be

discontinued.

(2) The pullet producers and licensed egg producers entitled to vote under subsection

(1) are limited to 1 vote per producer.

Powers delegated to Commodity Board by Council under subsection 6(2) of Act

(1) Under subsection 6(2) of the Act, the Council delegates to the Commodity Board

the power to

(

a) do any acts, make any orders and issue any directions that are necessary to

enforce the Act, the Plan and the regulations (clause 6(1)(

c) of the Act);

(

b) investigate the cost of producing, distributing and transporting eggs and

pullets, prices, price spreads, trade practices, methods of financing,

management, grading, policies and other matters relating to marketing or

producing eggs and pullets (clause 6(1)(

b) of the Act);

(

c) determine fair or minimum prices that must be paid to producers or to the

Board for any class, variety, grade or size of eggs or pullets (clause 6(1)(

g) of the Act);

(

d) exempt from the Plan or any order or direction of the Commodity Board

any person or class of persons engaged in producing or marketing eggs or

pullets, or producing or marketing a class, variety or grade of eggs or pullets

(clause 6(1)(

h) of the Act);

(

e) require persons engaged in producing or marketing eggs or pullets to

register with the Commodity Board their names, addresses and occupations

and the quantity of eggs and pullets produced or marketed by them, and

require persons engaged in producing or marketing eggs or pullets to furnish

such additional information as the Commodity Board may determine and

inspect the books, records and premises of persons engaged in production or

marketing (clause 6(1)(

i) of the Act);

(

f) cooperate and act conjointly with a marketing board, commodity board,

marketing commission or marketing agency of Canada or a province or

territory in Canada established for the purpose of marketing eggs and pullets

(clause 6(1)(

l) of the Act);

(

g) cooperate and act conjointly with boards or agencies in the Province for the

purpose of sharing information or resources (clause 6(1)(

l) of the Act);

(

h) require any person engaged in marketing or producing eggs or pullets to

furnish security or proof of financial responsibility (clause 6(1)(

n) of the

Act);

(

i) require persons designated by the Board who are engaged in marketing eggs

or pullets to deduct licence fees, levies or charges established under the Plan

from any amount payable by them to producers, and to remit all amounts so

deducted to the Council or Board (clause 6(1)(

j) of the Act);

(

j) require the person in charge of any vehicle thought to be conveying any

eggs or pullets to stop the vehicle and to permit any person appointed by the

Council for that purpose to inspect the vehicle and its contents (clause

6(1)(

k) of the Act);

(

k) investigate, arbitrate, adjudicate upon, adjust or otherwise settle any dispute

between any 2 or more producers, distributors or transporters of eggs or

pullets or any dispute between producers, distributors or transporters of eggs

or pullets as classes of persons (clause 6(1)(

a) of the Act);

(

l) prohibit any person from marketing or producing eggs or pullets (clause

6(1)(

m) of the Act).

(2) Under clause 6(1)(

e) of the Act, the Council authorizes the Board to borrow money

for the purpose of carrying out any provision of the Plan.

Regulation-making powers delegated to Commodity Board by Council under clause 11(

d) of the Act

6 In accordance with clause 11(

d) of the Act, and subject to the approval by the Council,

the Commodity Board may exercise the Council’s power under subsection 9(1) of the

Act to make regulations

(

a) regulating and controlling the marketing or production of eggs and pullets

within the regulated area (clause 9(1)(

a) of the Act);

(

b) providing for licensing persons to permit them to engage in producing or

marketing eggs or pullets (clause 9(1)(

b) of the Act);

(

c) providing for

(

i) marketing or producing eggs and pullets on a quota basis (subclause

9(1)(c)(

i) of the Act),

(ii) fixing and allotting quotas to persons for marketing or producing

eggs or pullets on any basis that the Board considers proper

(subclause 9(1)(c)(ii) of the Act),

(iii) refusing to fix and allot a quota to a person for marketing or

producing eggs or pullets for any reason the Board considers proper

(subclause 9(1)(c)(iii) of the Act),

under which the transfers may take place (subclause 9(1)(c)(iv) of the

Act), and

(

v) cancelling or reducing, or refusing to increase, a quota fixed and

allotted to a person for marketing or producing eggs or pullets for any

reason that the Board considers proper (subclause 9(1)(c)(

v) of the

Act);

(

d) prohibiting

(

i) a person to whom a quota has not been fixed and allotted for

marketing or producing eggs or pullets from marketing or producing

any eggs or pullets (subclause 9(1)(d)(

i) of the Act), and

(ii) a person to whom a quota has been fixed and allotted for marketing

or producing eggs or pullets from marketing or producing any eggs

or pullets in excess of the quota (subclause 9(1)(d)(ii) of the Act);

licences may be issued, renewed, suspended or revoked (clause 9(1)(

e) of

the Act);

(

f) providing for the furnishing of security or proof of financial responsibility

by persons who purchase farm products for resale (clause 9(1)(

h) of the

Act);

(

g) respecting licence fees, levies or charges to be paid by producers and

processors in relation to the administration of this Plan and the regulations

(clause 9(1)(hb) of the Act);

(

h) exempting a person or class of persons from any or all of the regulations

(clause 9(1)(

i) of the Act); and

(

i) providing for the making of returns or the furnishing of information by any

person licensed under this Plan (clause 9(1)(

f) of the Act).

Council retains authority to exercise powers

7 Despite the delegation of powers to the Board in Sections 5 and 6, if the Board refuses to

act or is unable to act, the Council retains the authority to exercise the powers that have

been delegated to the Board.

Composition of Commodity Board

(1) For the purpose of electing the members of the Board who represent licensed egg

producers, the regulated area is divided into the following 2 zones:

(

a) the Eastern Zone, comprising the counties of Inverness, Richmond, Cape

Breton, Victoria, Antigonish, Guysborough, Pictou, Cumberland,

Colchester, Halifax and Hants;

(

b) the Western Zone, comprising the counties of Kings, Annapolis, Lunenburg,

Queens, Shelburne, Yarmouth and Digby.

(2) The Board must consist of 8 members elected or appointed as follows:

(a) 2 licensed egg producers elected or appointed by the licensed egg producers

in each of the Eastern and Western Zones;

(b) 3 licensed egg producers elected or appointed as members at large by the

licensed egg producers at the annual general meeting;

(c) 1 pullet producer elected or appointed by the pullet producers in the

regulated area.

(3) Except as provided in subsection (4), each Board member must be resident or

carrying on business in the zone or area that they represent.

(4) A licensed egg producer who resides in a county that borders on a zone different

from the zone in which that county is situate may affiliate with the neighboring

zone and, if so affiliated, is eligible to be elected or appointed to represent the

neighboring zone.

Election or appointment of Board membership

(1) The licensed egg producers in each zone must elect or, if no candidates stand for

election, appoint the Commodity Board members for their zone at their annual

zone meeting or at a meeting called for that purpose.

(2) The licensed egg producers in attendance at an annual general meeting must elect

or, if no candidates stand for election, appoint the Commodity Board members for

any member at large position that expires at the end of the annual general meeting.

(3) The pullet producers in the regulated area must elect or, if no candidates stand for

election, appoint their representative Commodity Board member at their annual

meeting or at a meeting called for that purpose.

(4) If a zone or area fails or refuses to elect or appoint a representative to the

Commodity Board as required under subsections (1) to (3), the Board may appoint

a pullet producer or licensed egg producer from the zone or area to represent the

zone or area on the Commodity Board.

(5) At least 60 days before the date of the annual general meeting each year, the

Commodity Board must do all of the following:

(

a) notify all pullet producers and licensed egg producers of the member

positions whose terms expire at the end of the annual general meeting;

(

b) establish procedures for all of the following to be used in the coming

election and notify all pullet producers and licensed egg producers of the

procedures:

(

i) nominating candidates;

(ii) appointing designated representatives for corporate entities that are

eligible to vote;

(iii) resolving any tied votes;

(iv) appointing Board members if no candidates are identified.

Term of office of Board member

(1) Except as provided in subsections (5) and (6), the term of office for a Commodity

Board member is 3 years and begins at the adjournment of the first annual general

meeting following the member’s election or appointment.

(2) A Board member is eligible for re-election or re-appointment to the Board upon

the expiry of their term of office.

(3) If a member dies, resigns or is otherwise removed during their term of office, the

pullet producers or licensed egg producers resident or carrying on business in the

zone or area represented by that member may elect or appoint another member to

complete the term.

(4) If the pullet producers or licensed egg producers resident or carrying on business in

a zone or area fail or refuse to elect or appoint another member as provided for in

subsection (3), the Board may appoint a pullet producer or licensed egg producer

from the zone or area to represent the zone or area on the Board.

(5) The terms of office of all Commodity Board members expire on the date of the

2023 annual general meeting.

(6) The initial terms of office for the 8 Commodity Board members assuming office in

2023 must be all of the following:

(a) 2 terms expiring on the date of the 2024 annual general meeting;

(b) 3 terms expiring on the date of the 2025 annual general meeting;

(c) 3 terms expiring on the date of the 2026 annual general meeting.

(7) One of each of the terms described in subsection (6) must be set aside and assigned

to each member at large elected or appointed under clause 8(2)(

b) through a

random draw at the 2023 annual general meeting.

(8) After setting aside 3 terms for members at large under subsection (7), the

remaining 5 terms described in subsection (6) must be assigned to each

Commodity Board member elected or appointed under clauses 8(2)(

a) and 8(2)(

c) through random draws held at the meeting where the member is elected or

appointed.

(9) A Commodity Board member who assumes office to represent the Central Zone

before May 1, 2025, will represent the Eastern Zone on and after May 1, 2025, for

the remainder of their term of office, and a member who represents the Eastern

Zone before May 1, 2025, continues to represent that zone for the remainder of

their term of office.

(10) A Commodity Board member who assumes office to represent the Southern Zone

before May 1, 2025, will represent the Western Zone on and after May 1, 2025, for

the remainder of their term of office, and a member who represents the Western

Zone before May 1, 2025, continues to represent that zone for the remainder of

their term of office.

Board operating year and annual general meeting

(1) An operating year of the Board begins on the day immediately after the end of a

52- or 53-week production year established by the Agency and ends at the end of

the next following production year established by the Agency.

(2) The Board must hold an annual general meeting no later than 4 months after the

last day of an operating year.

Notice of meetings

11A

(1) The Board must provide at least 10 days’ notice of the annual general meeting to

all producers.

(2) Notice of an annual general meeting or other Board meeting must be made in

writing and must be sent using 1 or more of the following methods:

(

a) registered mail;

(

b) regular postal mail;

(

c) courier;

(

d) fax;

(

e) e-mail.

Election of Chair and Vice-Chair of Board

12 At the first Board meeting after an annual general meeting, the members of the Board

must elect a Chair and a Vice-Chair from among the members, and may appoint any

other officers that they consider necessary.

Notice of Board meeting

13 A meeting of the Board may be called at any time

(

a) by the Chair, by giving each member at least 3 days’ notice of the meeting;

(

b) by any 4 members of the Board, by giving each member at least 7 days’

notice of the meeting.

If Chair absent from Board meeting

14 If the Chair is absent from a Board meeting, the Vice-chair must act as chair of the

meeting, and if neither the Chair nor the Vice-chair is present at a meeting, the members

present must elect a chair for the meeting.

Quorum for Board meetings

15 At all meetings of the Board, 5 members constitute a quorum.

Removal of Board member from office

16 The Commodity Board may remove a Board member from office if the member fails to

attend 3 consecutive meetings of the Board without adequate cause, or for any other

reason that the Board considers sufficient.

Acts of Board valid despite irregularity or temporary vacancy

17 Despite any irregularity in the appointment, election or qualification of any member of

the Board, or any temporary vacancy on the Board, every act of the Board is as valid as if

the Board were duly constituted and every member duly appointed, elected and qualified.

Copies of Board records to Council

18 The Board must promptly send all of the following to the Council:

(

a) certified copies of all orders, directions, regulations and determinations of

the Board;

(

b) copies of the minutes of all Board meetings.

Board financial statements and other annual reporting

(1) The Board must keep proper books of account that must be audited at the end of

each operating year by an auditor who has been appointed at the most recent

annual general meeting and who is acceptable to the Council.

(2) No later than 3 months after the last day of an operating year, the Board must send

a complete set of the financial statements of the Board, together with the auditor’s

report, to the Council.

(3) At least 7 days before the date of an annual general meeting, the Board must send

all of the following to each pullet producer and licensed egg producer:

(

a) a copy of the financial statements of the Board for the past operating year,

together with the auditor’s report;

(

b) a report of the Chair setting out the activities of the Board during the past

operating year.

(4) The Commodity Board must send the documents referred to in subsection

(3) using 1 or more of the following methods:

(

a) registered mail;

(

b) regular postal mail;

(

c) courier;

(

d) fax;

(

e) e-mail.

Requirement to hold licence or pullet quota certificate

(1) A person must not produce eggs or grade or process eggs in the regulated area

except under the authority of a licence issued by the Board.

(2) A person must not produce pullets in the regulated area unless under the authority

of a pullet quota certificate issued by the Board.

Suspension, revocation and refusal to renew licence

21 The Board may recommend that the Council suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a

licence, in whole or in part, for failure to observe, perform or carry out the provisions of

the Act, the Plan, or any regulations made or direction issued by the Board.

Requirement to register, provide information

(1) Each producer, grader and processor must register their name, address and

occupation with the Board.

(2) Each person who markets or produces eggs or pullets must give the Board any

information relating to the production or marketing of eggs or pullets that the

Board requires, including information in the form of returns to be completed and

filed with the Board.

Part II

1 In this Part

“Agency” means the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency established under the Farm

Products Agencies Act (Canada);

“Council” means the Natural Products Marketing Council;

“Commodity Board” means the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia;

“quota” means the number of dozens of eggs that an egg producer is entitled to

market in intraprovincial trade through normal marketing channels, or to have

marketed on his behalf by the Commodity Board in intraprovincial trade, during a

specified period of time;

“quota system” means a system whereby egg producers are assigned quotas by the

Council or the Commodity Board thus enabling the Commodity Board to fix and

determine the quantity, if any, in which eggs of any variety, class or grade thereof

may be marketed in intraprovincial trade by each egg producer and by all egg

producers.

Quota system

2 The Council or Commodity Board shall, on the coming into force of this Part, establish

by order or regulation a quota system in order to assign quotas to all members of classes

of producers in the province in such manner that the number of dozens of eggs produced

in the province and authorized to be marketed in intraprovincial trade in the year 1973,

when taken together with the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and

authorized to be marketed in interprovincial and export trade in the same year, pursuant

to quotas assigned by the Agency, and the number of dozens of eggs produced in the

province and anticipated to be marketed in the same year, other than as authorized by a

quota assigned by the Agency or by the Council or Commodity Board, will equal the

number of dozens of eggs set out in

Section 3 of this Part.

3 For the purposes of

Section 2 of this Part the number of dozens of eggs set out in this

Section for the province is the number of dozens set out in Column II of an item of the

following table in respect of the province as set out in Column I of that item, such

number of dozens representing the percentage set out in Column III of that item.

Table

Column I Column II Column III

1. British Columbia 57,250,000 12.055 per cent

2. Alberta 41,344,000 8.704 per cent

3. Saskatchewan 22,611,000 4.760 per cent

4. Manitoba 54,189,000 11.408 per cent

5. Ontario 181,267,000 38.161 per cent

6. Quebec 78,647,000 16.556 per cent

7. New Brunswick 8,683,000 1.828 per cent

8. Nova Scotia 19,504,000 4.106 per cent

9. Prince Edward Island 3,028,000 0.637 per cent

10. Newfoundland 8,477,000 1.785 per cent

(1) No order or regulation shall be made where the effect thereof would be to increase

the aggregate of

(

a) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and authorized by

quotas assigned by the Council or Commodity Board and by the Agency to be

marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade; and

(

b) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and anticipated to be

marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade other than as

authorized by quotas assigned by the Council or Commodity Board, and by the

Agency

to a number that exceeds, on a yearly basis, the number of dozens of eggs set out in

Section 3 of this Part for the province unless the Council or Commodity Board has

taken into account

(

c) the principle of comparative advantage of production in respect of each

province;

(

d) any variation in the size of the market for eggs;

(

e) any failures by egg producers in the province or provinces to market the

number of dozens of eggs authorized to be marketed;

(

f) the feasibility of increased production in each province to be marketed; and

(

g) comparative transportation costs to market areas from alternative sources of

production,

and the Agency is making a similar order or regulation.

(2) No order or regulation shall be made where the effect thereof would be to decrease

the aggregate of

(

a) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and authorized by

quotas assigned to the Council or Commodity Board and by the Agency to be

marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade; and

(

b) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and anticipated to be

marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade other than as

authorized by quotas assigned by the Council or Commodity Board and by the

Agency

to a number that, on a yearly basis, is less than the number of dozens of eggs set out

Section 3 of this Part for the province unless at the same time the number of

dozens of eggs produced in each other province and so authorized to be marketed in

intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade is decreased proportionately.

(3) When the Agency has made an order or regulation pursuant to provisions of a

marketing plan similar to the provisions of subsections (1) or (2), the Commodity

Board shall make a similar order or regulation.

5 The Council or Commodity Board may require that each egg producer to whom a quota is

assigned, as a condition of the assignment thereof, to make available to the Commodity

Board or its agent all eggs produced by him and available to be marketed in excess of the

quota assigned to him at a price not exceeding the difference, if any, between the price

realized by the Commodity Board or its agent on the marketing of such eggs and its

expenses related to such marketing.

(1) The Commodity Board may market eggs made available to it or its agent on an

individual or collective basis and may pool the receipts from the marketing thereof

and deduct from the pool the expenses incurred by it or by its agent in marketing

such eggs before any payment is made to the producers.

(2) The Commodity Board shall not market any quantity of the products made available

to it in excess of the number of eggs referred to in Sections 2 and 3 or as modified

pursuant to

Section 4 of this Part, without prior consultation of with the Agency.

7 The Commodity Board shall, with the concurrence of the Agency, administer on its behalf

all orders and regulations made by it for the purpose of establishing and implementing a

quota system or any such orders or regulations necessary to implement the provisions of

the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Proclamation and similar provisions of this Part.

8 The Council and Commodity Board shall make, approve and implement any order or

regulation necessary to reflect any provisions of this Part.

Licences

9 The Council or Commodity Board shall make available to the Agency any documents or

extract of documents establishing the registration or licensing of producers, when any such

system is in force.

Levies

10 The Commodity Board shall, with the concurrence of the Agency, collect on its behalf any

levies imposed by the Agency.

Sales verification

(1) The Council or Commodity Board shall make regulations and orders requiring any

person engaged in marketing eggs to give all the information necessary to monitor

sales.

(2) The Council or Commodity Board shall establish a verification system of sales.

(3) The Council or Commodity Board shall provide all information obtained from the

implementation of the system referred to in subsection (2) to the Agency when

requested.

General

12 The Council or Commodity Board shall take all reasonable steps to promote a high degree

of cooperation between itself and the Agency, and without limiting the generality of the

foregoing, shall

(

a) make available to the Agency the records, minutes and decisions of the

Council or Commodity Board in relation to any matter that is of concern to the

Agency;

(

b) allow an officer or employee of the Agency who is designated by the Agency

for such purpose to attend meetings of the Council or Commodity Board at

which any matter that is of concern to the Agency is likely to be discussed and

for such purpose shall give notice of all such meetings to the officer or

employee so designated; and

(

c) give notice of each order or regulation that it proposes to make to the Agency.

13 The authority and powers referred to in Sections 3, 14, 18, 19 and 20 of

Part I of this Plan

and any substituted similar provisions are restricted by and to the provisions of this Part.

14 This Part shall come into force on the same day the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency

Proclamation comes into force.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Marketing Plan

N.S. Reg.

239/1982

Natural Products Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Marketing Plan made

under the Natural Products Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

239/1982

Nov 23, 1982

date made

Dec 16, 1982

11/1983

Feb 1, 1983

date made

Feb 24, 1983

38/1989

Jan 1, 1989

date specified

Apr 20, 1989

281/1992

Mar 21, 1992

date specified

Jan 8, 1993

85/2001

July 5, 2001

date specified

Jul 27, 2001

164/2006

Aug 17, 2006

date specified

Sep 1, 2006

321/2022

Dec 13, 2022

date specified

Dec 30, 2022

80/2025

Apr 22, 2025

date specified

May 2, 2025

The following regulations are not

yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

Part I .................................................

rs . 164/2006

1 ....................................................

am. 85/2001, 321/2022 1

2 ....................................................

rs . 321/2022

2(d) ...............................................

am. 85/2001

2(i) ................................................

am. 85/2001

2(o) ...............................................

am. 85/2001

4 ....................................................

rs . 321/2022

6 ....................................................

am. 321/2022

8(1) ...............................................

rs . 80/2025

8(2) ...............................................

rs . 321/2022

8(2)(a) .........................................

rs . 80/2025

8(3) ...............................................

am. 321/2022

9 ....................................................

rs . 321/2022

10 ..................................................

rs . 321/2022

10(9)-(10) ....................................

ad. 80/2025

11A ...............................................

ad. 321/2022

12 ..................................................

am. 321/2022

17(3) .............................................

am. 11/1983

19 ..................................................

rs . 321/2022

20 ..................................................

rs . 321/2022

20(b) .............................................

rs . 38/1989, 281/1992; am.

85/2001

20(c) .............................................

am. 11/1983

Part II ...............................................

ad. 11/1983

1 ....................................................

am. 85/2001

1, defn .

of “agency” .....................

rs . 321/2022

1, defn .

of “Commodity Board” ...

rs . 321/2022

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Title of

regulations amended from Nova Scotia Egg Producers’ Marketing Plan .

Dec 13, 2022

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.