Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Levy Order
made under clause 9(1)(hb) of the
Natural Products Act
R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 308
N.S. Reg. 170/2006 (effective July 16, 2006)
amended to N.S. Reg. 195/2023 (effective November 5, 2023)
1 This Order may be cited as the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Levy Order.
2 In this Order,
(a) “Agency” means the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency;
(b) “Commodity Board” means the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia;
(c) “egg” means egg of a hen;
(d) “grading station operator” means any person who washes, grades, packs, offers
for sale, sells, stores, transports or markets eggs and includes a Commodity
Board, when applicable, and includes a producer-vendor;
(e) “hen” means a hen of any class of the domestic chicken belonging to the
species Gallus domesticus;
(f) “Plan” means the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Marketing Plan, and
amendments thereto;
(g) “producer” means any person engaged in the production of eggs in the
Province and includes a producer-vendor;
(h) “producer-vendor” means a producer who is a grading station operator in
respect of all or any portion of eggs produced by that producer.
3 (1) A levy is imposed on every producer of $0.5195 per dozen of eggs marketed by the
producer minus the number of dozens of eggs, if any, marketed by the producer in
interprovincial and export trade.
(2) The levy imposed by subsection (l) shall, where the eggs are sold or otherwise
disposed of
(a) to a person who is not a grading station operator, be paid by the producer
directly to the Commodity Board; or
(b) to a grading station operator, be paid to the grading station operator to whom
they are delivered, by the grading station operator deducting the amount of the
levy from the monies payable by the grading station operator to the producer
for the eggs and the grading station operator shall in turn pay the levies so
collected to the Commodity Board.
4 As with previous levies, it is hereby confirmed that the total levy imposed on the producer
with respect to eggs marketed by that producer in interprovincial and export trade shall,
through the Levy Order set up and amended from time to time by the Agency, be identical
to the total levy imposed hereunder for intraprovincial trade.
5 This Order shall come into force as of December 30, 2007.
6 [repealed]
The following regulations are not yet in force and are
not included in the current consolidation: