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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS MARKETING ACTSaskatchewan Turkey Marketing Levies OrderOrder Providing for the Fixing, Imposing and Collecting of Levies from Certain Turkey Producers in SaskatchewanShort Title

1This Order may be cited as the Saskatchewan Turkey Marketing Levies Order.

Interpretation

2In this Order,Act means The Natural Products Marketing Act of Saskatchewan; (Loi)Commodity Board means The Saskatchewan Turkey Producers’ Marketing Board established pursuant to the Act; (Office de commercialisation)market allotment means the total quantity of turkey meat that a producer is entitled to market in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade pursuant to the Canadian Turkey Marketing Quota Regulations and the orders made by the Commodity Board pursuant to the Plan; (allocation de commercialisation)Plan means The Saskatchewan Turkey Producers’ Marketing Plan established and amended from time to time pursuant to the Act and any regulations made thereunder to give effect to the Plan; (Plan)producer means any person engaged in the production of turkeys in the Province of Saskatchewan; (producteur)turkey means a turkey of any variety, grade or class that is raised or kept for slaughter within the Province of Saskatchewan and sold for slaughter. (dindon)

Levies

3Every producer shall pay to the Commodity Board, in addition to the fees set out under the Plan, levies at the rate of $0.22 per kilogram live weight on every turkey sold by him that is in excess of his market allotment.SOR/86-224, s. 1

Method of Payment

4(1)Every person who buys turkeys from a producer shall deduct from the moneys payable to the producer for the turkeys all levies payable by the producer to the Commodity Board under section 3 and shall pay such levies to the Commodity Board at its office in Regina, Saskatchewan, not later than the 15th day of the month next following the month in which the levies were deducted.(2)Every producer shall pay to the Commodity Board at its office in Regina, Saskatchewan, all levies payable by him under section 3 that were not deducted and paid to the Commodity Board in the manner prescribed in subsection (1) not later than the 15th day of the month next following the month in which the turkeys in respect of which the levies are payable were sold.SOR/86-224, s. 1