Commodity Boards and Marketing Agencies Act (R.S.O. 1990, c. C.19). Pays/Territoire Canada Sous-division territoriale Ontario Type du document Législation Date 1990 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Agriculture et développement rural Mot clé Produits agricoles Institution Commerce intérieur Royalties/redevances Aire géographique Amériques, Arctique, Asie et Pacifique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord Résumé The present Act lays down comprehensive provisions relating to commodity boards and marketing agencies. For the purpose of the present Act “commodity board” means a local board under the Farm Products Marketing Act or a marketing board under the Milk Act and “marketing agency” means a marketing agency of Canada that is authorized to exercise powers of regulation in relation to the marketing of a regulated product in interprovincial or export trade and that has been granted authority to regulate the marketing of the regulated product locally within Ontario. Section 2 establishes that the Lieutenant Governor in Council may by regulation grant to any commodity board or marketing agency in relation to the marketing of any regulated product locally within Ontario authority to fix, impose and collect levies or charges from persons engaged in the production or marketing of the whole or any part of the regulated product and for such purpose to classify such persons into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts. The text consists of 4 sections. Texte intégral Anglais Site web www.gov.on.ca