Canadian Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Orderly Marketing Regulations

1 The definitions in this section apply in these Regulations.

Act

Act means the Farm Products Agencies Act. (Loi)

Agency

Agency means Canadian Hatching Egg Producers. (Office)

broiler hatching egg

broiler hatching egg means an egg that is suitable for incubation and is to be hatched as a chick for chicken production. (oeuf d’incubation de poulet de chair)

chick

chick means a chick hatched from a broiler hatching egg from the time of hatch until it is placed in the facilities of a chicken producer for raising and not for resale. (poussin)

dealer

dealer means a person, other than a producer or hatchery operator, engaged in the marketing in interprovincial trade into a signatory province of broiler hatching eggs or chicks produced in a non-signatory province. (négociant)

hatchability

hatchability means the percentage of saleable chicks obtained from the incubation of broiler hatching eggs as established for each province by the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food and published by that Department in the Annual Hatchery Review. (coefficient d’éclosion)

hatchery operator

hatchery operator means a person who incubates broiler hatching eggs into chicks. (couvoirier)

marketing

marketing, in relation to broiler hatching eggs and chicks, means selling and offering for sale and buying, hatching, pricing, assembling, packing, transporting, delivering, receiving, storing and reselling. (commercialisation)

non-signatory provinces

non-signatory provinces means Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. (provinces non signataires)

orderly marketing quota

orderly marketing quota means the number of broiler hatching eggs or chicks produced in a non-signatory province that a producer, dealer or hatchery operator is authorized under these Regulations to market in interprovincial trade into a signatory province during a year. (contingent de commercialisation)

producer

producer means a person engaged in the production of broiler hatching eggs in a non-signatory province. (producteur)

qualifying period

qualifying period means

• (a) in relation to broiler hatching eggs, the period beginning on November 27, 1985 and ending on November 26, 1986; and

• (b) in relation to chicks, the period beginning on August 1, 1988 and ending on July 31, 1989. (période de référence)

signatory provinces

signatory provinces means Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia. (provinces signataires)