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Farm Products Marketing Agencies Act, 1972: This legislation set up the National Farm Products Council. It also provided the legal foundation for national marketing agencies. In 1993, Parliament amended the Act to allow the creation of national promotion and research agencies, and renamed the legislation the Farm Products Agencies Act.
Agricultural Products Marketing Act, 1949: This legislation allows the federal government to delegate its authority over interprovincial and export trade to provincial commodity boards. This authority allows the provincial boards to regulate marketing in interprovincial and export trade.
A provincial commodity board needs to apply to the federal government to be granted authority under the Agricultural Products Marketing Act. The NFPC can guide a group on how to present an application and then steers the application through the evaluation and decision process within the federal government. If the group's application is successful, then the federal government will formally grant authority to the group and describe the powers and limits by way of an APMA Delegation Order.
An APMA Order may stand alone, or it may set out the general authority from which one or more Orders or Regulations may derive.
See more about the required procedure
As part of Administering these two acts, the NFPC also has to pay attention to related regulations and agreements. For more information on Provincial Government links, please visit the sites below.
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