Order Amending the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order: SOR/2018-125
Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 152, Number 14
Registration
June 21, 2018
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACT
The Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of the Quebec Maple Sap and Maple Syrup Order footnote a, makes the annexed Order Amending the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order.
Longueuil, June 18, 2018
Order Amending the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order
Amendments
1 The long title of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order footnote 1 is replaced by the following:
Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order
2 Section 1 of the Order and the heading before it are repealed.
3 Sections 3 to 5 of the Order are replaced by the following:
3 Every producer must pay to the Commodity Board a levy of $0.14 per pound of maple syrup that is marketed in bulk in interprovincial and export trade.
Method of Payment
4 Subject to section 5, the producer must remit the levy payable under section 3 to the Commodity Board at its head office in Longueuil, Quebec, within the time limit referred to in section 3 of the Règlement sur les contributions des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, RLRQ, c. M-35.1, r. 9.2.
5 If levies are not remitted by the producer, the buyer must, if they are situated in Quebec, deduct, from the moneys payable to a producer for maple syrup, the levy payable by the producer to the Commodity Board under section 3 and must remit the levy directly to the Commodity Board at its head office in Longueuil, Quebec, within the time limit referred to in section 3 of the Règlement sur les contributions des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, RLRQ, c. M-35.1, r. 9.2.
Coming into Force
4 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order.)
The amendments to this Order update the method of collection and levy rates for maple syrup produced in the province of Quebec that is marketed in interprovincial and export trade.