Fee imposed on egg station marketings

1   A fee is imposed on each producer of $0.06 per dozen of eggs marketed by such producer to or through an egg station registered under the Canada Agricultural Products Act.

M.R. 154/2018; 137/2021

Time of imposition of fee

2   The fee imposed under section 1 shall be due and payable by the producer to this Board at the time and place of the marketing of the eggs by the producer.

Egg station operator's obligation to deduct and to remit

3   Each operator of an egg station registered under the Canada Agricultural Products Act who receives eggs from an egg producer shall deduct from the monies payable for the eggs, all fees payable by the producer to this Board and shall forward such fees to this Board at its office, Suite 18, 5 Scurfield Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3Y 1G3, not later than seven (7) days from the last day of the week in which the eggs were received.

M.R. 154/2018

Fee imposed on all other marketings

4   A fee is hereby imposed on each egg producer who keeps 500 or more laying hens of $0.06 per dozen eggs marketed by such producer in any manner other than to or through an egg station registered under the Canada Agricultural Products Act.

M.R. 154/2018; 137/2021

Producer's obligation to remit

5   Each egg producer shall pay to this Board at its office, Suite 18, 5 Scurfield Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3Y 1G3, all fees imposed on such producer under this regulation that were not deducted and forwarded to this Board by the person who received the eggs from the producer, in respect of eggs marketed by such producer in any week, not later than seven (7) days from the last day of the week in which such eggs were marketed.

Refund of fees

6   In the event the fees paid by a registered producer during a fiscal year of the Board pursuant to this Regulation exceed an amount equal to the licence fees payable by that producer pursuant to the Egg Producer Registration and Licence Fee Regulation, the Board may refund a portion of the fees paid by that producer under this Regulation in an amount not to exceed such difference.

Non-application

7   This regulation does not apply to eggs which are produced by

(a) the University of Manitoba and consumed on the Campus of the University of Manitoba; and

(b) the Rockwood Institution and consumed by the employees and inmates of the Rockwood Institution or Stony Mountain Penitentiary on the site of such Institution or Penitentiary.

Other non-application

8(1)   For certainty, this regulation does not apply to eggs produced and sold or used by the producer of such eggs for hatching purposes.

8(2)   This regulation does not apply to eggs produced by a registered producer pursuant to a laying hen permit issued by the Board and sold to the Board by such permit holder for marketing by the Board for use in processing.

M.R. 137/2021

Repeal

9   Manitoba Regulation 50/92 is repealed.