Quebec Maple Syrup Producers’ Levy (Interprovincial and Export Trade) Order (SOR/93-195)

1 [Repealed, SOR/2018-125, s. 2]

Interpretation

2 In this Order,

buyer

buyer means a person who buys or receives maple syrup in bulk from a producer; (acheteur)

Commodity Board

Commodity Board means the Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec; (Fédération)

maple syrup

maple syrup means any maple syrup produced in the Province of Quebec and marketed in bulk; (sirop d’érable)

producer

producer means a person who owns, leases or otherwise operates a sugar bush in the Province of Quebec and who produces, directly or through or on behalf of another person, maple syrup to market in bulk in interprovincial or export trade. (producteur)

Levy

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.