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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]

 

 


 

Legislative History
Reference Tables

Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Levy Order

N.S. Reg. 170/2006

Natural Products Act

Note:  The information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia Levy Order made under the Natural Products Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.
Regulation

In force
date*

How in force

Royal Gazette
Part II Issue

170/2006

Jul 16, 2006

date specified

Sep 15, 2006

23/2007

Jan 16, 2007

date specified

Feb 2, 2007

303/2007

Jun 17, 2007

date specified

Jul 6, 2007

3/2008

Dec 30, 2007

date specified

Jan 18, 2008

418/2008

Oct 9, 2008

date specified

Nov 7, 2008

450/2008

Dec 28, 2008

date specified

Jan 2, 2009

1/2010

Dec 27, 2009

date specified

Jan 15, 2010

115/2010

Jul 15, 2010

date specified

Jul 30, 2010

7/2011

Jan 23, 2011

date specified

Jan 28, 2011

306/2011

Nov 15, 2011

date specified

Dec 2, 2011

319/2011

Jan 1, 2012

date specified

Dec 30, 2011

84/2012

Apr 11, 2012

date specified

May 4, 2012

223/2012

Dec 30, 2012

date specified

Jan 11, 2013

318/2013

Oct 9, 2013

date specified

Nov 1, 2013

326/2013

Nov 13, 2013

date specified

Nov 29, 2013

338/2013

Dec 29, 2013

date specified

Dec 27, 2013

221/2014

Dec 10, 2014

date specified

Jan 9, 2015

193/2015

May 1, 2015

date specified

May 1, 2015

221/2015

May 17, 2015

date specified

Jun 12, 2015

9/2016

Jan 24, 2016

date specified

Feb 5, 2016

166/2016

Aug 24, 2016

date specified

Sep 16, 2016

4/2017

Jan 29, 2017

date specified

Jan 20, 2017

154/2017

Oct 11, 2017

date specified

Oct 27, 2017

21/2018

Feb 25, 2018

date specified

Feb 16, 2018

78/2018

Apr 22, 2018

date specified

May 11, 2018

138/2018

Aug 12, 2018

date specified

Aug 17, 2018

108/2019

Jul 14, 2018

date specified

Aug 2, 2019

10/2021

Feb 21, 2021

date specified

Feb 12, 2021

18/2022

Feb 20, 2022

date specified

Feb 25, 2022

50/2022

Mar 20, 2022

date specified

Apr 8, 2022

207/2022

Sep 4, 2022

date specified

Sep 23, 2022

323/2022

Dec 13, 2022

date specified

Dec 30, 2022

20/2023

Jan 29, 2023

date specified

Feb 10, 2023

127/2023

Jul 16, 2023

date specified

Jul 28, 2023

195/2023

Nov 5, 2023

date specified

Nov 17, 2023

The following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.
Regulation

In force
date*

How in force

Royal Gazette
Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added
am. = amended

fc. = fee change
ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed
rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

1........................................................

am. 323/20221

2(b)...................................................

am. 323/2022

2(f)....................................................

am. 323/2022

3(1)...................................................

am. 23/2007, 303/2007, 3/2008, 418/2008, 450/2008, 1/2010, 115/2010, 7/2011, 306/2011, 319/2011, 84/2012, 223/2012, 318/2013, 326/2013, 338/2013, 221/2014, 193/2015, 221/2015, 9/2016, 166/2016, 4/2017, 154/2017, 21/2018, 78/2018, 138/2018, 108/2019, 10/2021, 18/2022, 50/2022, 207/2022, 20/2023, 127/2023, 195/2023

5........................................................

am. 23/2007, 303/2007, 3/2008

6........................................................

rep. 23/2007

 

 

 

 

Note that changes to headings are not included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

 

Note

Effective
date

1

Title of regulations amended from Nova Scotia Egg Producers Levy Order.

Dec 13, 2022

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.
Regulation

Title

In force
date

Repealed
date

 

 

 

 

Note:  Only regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this table.  It may not reflect the entire history of regulations on this subject matter.

 

 


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