Saskatchewan Hog Farm Registration (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations

C.R.C., c. 275

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT

Saskatchewan Hog Farm Registration (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations

REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE REGISTRATION OF THE FARM OF CERTAIN PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE MARKETING IN INTERPROVINCIAL AND EXPORT TRADE OF HOGS PRODUCED IN SASKATCHEWAN

SHORT TITLE

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Saskatchewan Hog Farm Registration (Interprovincial and Export) Regulations.

INTERPRETATION

2. In these Regulations,

"Act" means The Natural Products Marketing Act, 1972 of Saskatchewan; (Loi)

"Commission" means the Saskatchewan Hog Marketing Commission established pursuant to the Act and the Plan; (Commission)

"hog" means any member of the species Sus Scrofa L. (domestic pig) produced in Saskatchewan; (porc)

"Plan" means the Saskatchewan Hog Marketing Plan established and amended from time to time pursuant to the Act; (Plan)

"producer" means

(a) any person engaged in producing or feeding hogs and making them available for slaughter and includes the employer of any such person,

(b) any person who, under any lease or agreement, is entitled to a share of the hogs produced or fed by a person referred to in paragraph (a), and

(c) any person who takes possession of any hogs from any person under any form of security for a debt. (producteur)

APPLICATION

3. These Regulations apply only to the marketing of hogs in interprovincial and export trade and to persons and property situated in the Province of Saskatchewan.

FARM UNIT REGISTRATION

4. (1) No producer shall market hogs unless he has been allocated a farm unit registration number by the Commission.

(2) A producer may apply to the Commission for a farm unit registration number at the time of marketing his first shipment of hogs through the Commission.