The Alberta Potato Commission, pursuant to section 4* of the Alberta Potato Order, C.R.C., c. 133, hereby makes the annexed Order providing for the fixing, imposing and collecting of levies from potato producers in the Province of Alberta. SOR/85-708, 1985 Canada Gazette Part II, p. 3310
Calgary, Alberta, November 22, 1985
Short Title
This Order may be cited as the Alberta Potato Marketing Levies (Interprovincial and Export) Order.
Interpretation
In this Order,
dealer means a person engaged in the business of buying, receiving or selling potatoes in the Province of Alberta; (négociant)
grower means a person who is a producer of potatoes in the Province of Alberta; (producteur)
ungraded potatoes means potatoes that are delivered by a grower to any other person without first being graded or sorted except to remove potatoes that are so damaged or diseased as to be unfit for human consumption. (pommes de terre non classées)
Levies
Every grower shall pay to the Commission in respect of potatoes described in an item in Column I of the schedule that are sold in interprovincial or export trade a levy in the amount set out in Column II of that item.
Method of Payment
Every grower who sells potatoes in interprovincial or export trade, other than to a dealer or a dealer’s agent, shall
at the end of every calendar month, calculate the total sales of potatoes made by him or on his behalf in interprovincial or export trade; and
Every dealer who buys or receives potatoes from a grower for the purpose of sale in interprovincial or export trade shall
deduct from the moneys payable to the grower, the levy described in section 3; and
pay that levy to the Commission at its office at Lethbridge, Alberta, on or before the 15th day of the month following the month of sale.
Item Column I Column II Type of Potatoes Amount of levy per hundredweight 1 Potatoes graded Canada No. 1 or Canada No. 2$0.0825 2 Potatoes that are to be used as seed 0.0825 3 Ungraded potatoes for uses other than processing 0.0825 4 Ungraded potatoes for processing 0.0625 5 Potatoes remaining in a lot after potatoes graded Canada No. 1 and Canada No. 2 have been removed 0.04