Manitoba Chicken Marketing (Interprovincial and Export) Order

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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Manitoba Chicken Marketing (Interprovincial and Export) Order

ORDER RESPECTING THE MARKETING IN INTERPROVINCIAL AND EXPORT TRADE OF CHICKEN PRODUCED IN MANITOBA

SHORT TITLE

1. This Order may be cited as the Manitoba Chicken Marketing (Interprovincial and Export) Order.

INTERPRETATION

2. In this Order,

"chicken" means a chicken of any variety, grade or class that is not more than five months of age and that is raised or kept within the Province of Manitoba for a purpose other than egg production, and includes broiler, fryer and roasting chickens; (poulet)

"marketing" means selling or offering for sale, processing, buying, purchasing or offering to buy or purchase and includes advertising, packing, storing, shipping and transporting but does not include packing and storing by a producer on the producer's premises; (vente)

"producer" means any person who raises, keeps, prepares for slaughter, or slaughters chicken within the Province of Manitoba and includes the employer of any such person, a person who under any lease or agreement is entitled to a share of the chicken raised or kept by any such person, and a person who takes possession of any chicken from any such person under any form of security for a debt. (producteur)

APPLICATION

3. This Order applies in respect of the marketing of chicken in interprovincial and export trade and, in relation to such marketing, to persons and property situated in the Province of Manitoba.

PROHIBITION

4. No producer shall market chicken in interprovincial or export trade, unless exempted from this section by order of the Manitoba Chicken Broiler Producers' Marketing Board.