Definitions

1   In this regulation,

"Act" means The Agricultural Producers' Organization Funding Act;

"three-month period" means the three consecutive month period ending on the last days of February, May, August and November in each calendar year.

Maximum annual membership fee

2   For an individual, corporation or partnership, the maximum annual membership fee of the certified organization is $275.63, plus GST.

M.R. 181/2001; 77/2008; 57/2011; 134/2019; 116/2021; 144/2023

Designated purchaser

3(1)   Those persons listed in the Schedule to this regulation are designated purchasers.

3(2)   A body corporate affiliated with a person designated under subsection (1) is also a designated purchaser.

3(3)   A person who acquires title to or possession of an agricultural product as a principal or as an agent on behalf of a person designated under subsection (1) or (2) is also a designated purchaser.

Percentage value

4   The percentage value of an agricultural product that must be withheld under section 27 of the Act is 1% of the gross selling price payable by a designated purchaser for an agricultural product.

M.R. 113/2007; 176/2018

Refund of underpayments

5   When the certified organization is required by subsection 28(1) of the Act to refund amounts withheld under section 27, it shall make the refund within 60 days of the end of its fiscal year.

Refunds of overpayments

6   When the certified organization is required by subsection 28(2) of the Act to refund amounts withheld under section 27, it shall refund the excess amount to the person from whom it was withheld within 60 days of the end of a three-month period.

Refunds on request

7   When the certified organization is required by section 29 of the Act to refund the amounts withheld under section 27, it shall refund to the person making such request any amount remitted to it by a designated purchaser for that person within 60 days of the end of a three-month period.

Minimum amounts excepted

8   The certified organization is not required to refund any amount under section 5 or 6 which is less than $50 prior to 90 days of the end of its fiscal year.

9   [Repealed]

M.R. 206/2002; 244/2004; 248/2006; 180/2008; 177/2010; 166/2012; 273/2014; 142/2016; 176/2018; 144/2023

SCHEDULE

(Subsection 3(1))

DESIGNATED PURCHASERS

2712270 Manitoba Ltd. operating as Pizzey Ingredients

ADM Agri-Industries Company

Adroit Overseas Enterprises (CA) Ltd.

Agri-Tel Grain Limited

Alliance Pulse Processors Inc. (AGT Foods St. Joseph plant)

All Commodities (AC) Trading Ltd.

Alltech Canada Inc.

Avena Foods Limited

Belle Pulses Ltd.

Besco Grain Ltd.

BP & Sons Grain and Storage Inc.

Brar Natural Flour Milling Inc.

Brett-Young Seeds Limited/Semences Brett-Young Limitée

Buffalo Creek Mills (2017) Inc.

Bunge Canada Holdings I Inc.

Canada Malting Co. Limited

Cargill Limited

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Ceres Global Ag Corp.

CHS Canada, ULC

Columbia Grain International, LLC.

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba

Delmar Commodities Ltd.

Emerson Milling Inc.

ETG Commodities Manitoba Inc.

Federated Co-operatives Limited

FeedMax Limited Partnership

G3 Canada Limited

Grain Millers Canada Corp.

Hensall District Co-operative, Incorporated

Horizon Agro Inc.

HyLife Ltd.

Kalshea Commodities Inc.

Kola Feed Mill Ltd.

Linear Grain Inc.

M. & C. Commodities Inc.

Malteurop Canada Ltd.

Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers Limited

Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

Masterfeeds LP

McCain Foods Ltd.

Merit Functional Foods Corporation

Natural Proteins Inc.

Northstar Seed Ltd./Semence De L'Etoile Du Nord Ltee.

Nutri-Pea LP

Nuvision Commodities Inc.

Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited

Paterson Grain

Paterson GlobalFoods Inc.

Prairie Flax Products Inc.

Prairie Flour Mills Ltd.

Providence Grain Group Inc.

R-Way Ag Ltd.

Richardson International Limited

Roquette Canada Ltd.

S.S. Johnson Seeds Ltd.

Scoular Canada Ltd.

Seed-Ex Inc.

Shafer Commodities Inc.

Simplot Canada (II) Ltd.

Springfield Mills Inc.

Sollio Agriculture Livestock Production – Western Canada Holding Ltd.

Steinbach Feeds Ltd.

Sunrise Foods International Inc.

SureSource Commodities, LLC

Trouw Nutrition Canada Inc.

Turtle Mountain Seed Co. Ltd.

Vandaele Seeds Ltd.

Vanderveen Commodity Service Ltd.

Viterra Canada Inc.

Zeghers Seed Inc.

M.R. 181/2001; 244/2004; 248/2006; 180/2008; 177/2010; 166/2012; 273/2014; 64/2015; 176/2018; 134/2019; 132/2021; 182/2022; 144/2023