In this Act 2000, c.26, s.208; 2004, c.20, s.41; 2007, c.10, s.60; 2007, c.36, s.1; 2007, c.69, s.1; 2010, c.31, s.89; 2013, c.39, s.16; 2014, c.5, s.1; 2016, c.37, s.117; 2017, c.63, s.37; 2019, c.2, s.94; 2019, c.29, s.191; 2024, c.28, s.39
“agency” means an agency established under section 18;(agence)
“biomass” means biomass as defined in the Forest Products Act;(biomasse)
“bulk tank milk grader” means a person who grades and samples milk, determines and records the volume of milk in a farm bulk tank and transfers milk from a farm bulk tank to a milk tank truck;(préposé au classement du lait en citerne)
“Canadian Act” means any Act of the Parliament of Canada, whether enacted before or after the commencement of this Act, with objects similar, in whole or in part, to those of this Act;(loi du Canada)
“Canadian Board” means a board or other body constituted under any Canadian Act;(office canadien)
“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission;(président)
“Commission” means(Commission)
(a) with respect to farm products other than farm products of the forest, the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission, and
(b) with respect to farm products of the forest, the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission;
“dairy animal” includes cows, goats, sheep and other species kept for the purposes of milking;(animal laitier)
“dairy plant” means any place in which a dairy product is manufactured or processed;(usine laitière)
“dairy product” means a food or drink produced wholly or chiefly from milk or a milk derivative;(produit laitier)
“dairy products trade” means the undertaking for commercial purposes of producing, handling, processing, pasteurizing, homogenizing, bottling, packaging, transporting, delivering or selling milk or cream or any one or more of such undertakings;(commerce des produits laitiers)
“farm product” includes animals, meats, eggs, poultry, wool, milk, dairy products, fruit and fruit products, vegetables and vegetable products, maple products, honey, tobacco and such other natural products of agriculture and of the forest, including wood chips and biomass produced at or on the harvest site, and any article of food or drink wholly or partly manufactured or derived from any such product that may be designated by regulation;(produit de ferme)
“farm product service officer” means a farm product service officer appointed under section 64.1;(agent du service des produits de ferme)
“fluid cream products” means fluid cream products as defined in the regulations or orders under section 57;(produits de crème nature)
“fluid milk products” means fluid milk products as defined in the regulations or orders under section 57;(produits laitiers nature)
“forest management program” means a management program for the development, conservation and management of forestry resources;(programme de gestion forestière)
“grade” means any grade established under this Act or the regulations;(classe)
“hen” means a female of common domestic fowl;(poule)
“inspector” means an inspector appointed under this Act;(inspecteur)
“livestock” means cattle, goats, sheep and swine, and includes poultry and products of poultry;(bétail)
“marketing” means buying, selling or offering for sale, and includes advertising, financing, assembling, storing, packing, shipping and transporting in any manner by any person;(commercialisation)
“milk” means milk from a dairy animal;(lait)
“milk dealer” means a person who, as a principal, purchases or receives milk for the purpose of processing or selling fluid milk products or fluid cream products;(exploitant de laiterie)
“milk grader” means a person who grades and samples milk in a dairy plant;(préposé au classement du lait)
“milk vendor” means a person who, as a principal, purchases or receives fluid milk products or fluid cream products from a milk dealer for reselling or distributing to consumers;(laitier)
“Minister” means(Ministre)
(a) with respect to farm products other than farm products of the forest, the Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, and includes a person designated by that Minister to act on that Minister’s behalf; and
(b) with respect to farm products of the forest, the Minister of Natural Resources, and includes a person designated by that Minister to act on that Minister’s behalf;
“order” means an order made under this Act or the regulations or continued under this Act;(arrêté)
“peace officer” includes(agent de la paix)
(a) a peace officer as defined in the Motor Vehicle Act,
(b) a person deemed or designated to be a peace officer under the Motor Vehicle Act,
(c) a person designated as a commercial vehicle inspector for any purpose under the Highway Act or the Motor Vehicle Act,
(d) a person appointed as a conservation officer under the Crown Lands and Forests Act, and
(e) a person appointed under this Act as a farm product service officer;
“poultry” means any poultry designated as a regulated product under this Act;(volaille)
“primary forest products” means primary forest products as defined in the Forest Products Act;(produits forestiers de base)
“private woodlot” means a private woodlot as defined in the Forest Products Act;(terrain boisé privé)
“Provincial Act” means any Act of any other province, whether enacted before or after the commencement of this Act, with objects similar, in whole or in part, to those of this Act;(loi provinciale)
“Provincial Board” means a board or other body constituted under a Provincial Act, whether constituted before or after the commencement of this Act;(office provincial)
“registration certificate” , with reference to a vehicle, means the registration certificate issued for the vehicle under the Motor Vehicle Act;(certificat d’immatriculation)
“standards” means those rules, tests, measures or specifications by which the quality or grade of a farm product is determined;(normes)
“substitute dairy product” means any food or drink manufactured from blends of dairy and non-dairy ingredients or from blends of non-dairy ingredients;(succédané de produit laitier)
“transporter” means a carrier by any means of regulated products on a highway, as defined in the Highway Act, in the Province;(transporteur)
“vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, wagon, railway car, ship, boat or other thing in which a farm product can be transported;(véhicule)
If a conflict exists between this Act, any regulation made under this Act or any order made under this Act or the regulations and the Public Health Act or any regulation made under the Public Health Act in a matter relating principally to public health, the Public Health Act and any regulation made under it prevail. 2017, c.42, s.88
The purpose and intent of this Act is to provide
(a) for the promotion, control and regulation within the Province in any or all respects of the marketing of farm products over which the legislative jurisdiction of the Legislature extends, including the prohibition of such marketing in whole or in part,
(b) for the promotion, control and regulation within the Province in any or all respects of the production of farm products over which the legislative jurisdiction of the Legislature extends, including the prohibition of such production in whole or in part,
(c) for the promotion of farm products and for research relating to farm products over which the legislative jurisdiction of the Legislature extends,
(d) for the establishment of standards for farm products,
(e) for the establishment of standards for facilities used for the production, marketing or processing of farm products,
(f) for the establishment of commodity development councils to provide a forum for producers and industry to meet to discuss issues of mutual interest, and
(g) for the development, conservation and management of forestry resources on private woodlots in the Province.
2007, c.36, s.2With respect to farm products of the forest, this Act and the regulations only apply to farm products originating from private woodlots. 2007, c.36, s.2
The Farm Products Marketing Commission continues as a body corporate under the name New Brunswick Farm Products Commission.
The members of the Commission continued under subsection (1) who held office immediately before the commencement of this section continue in office, subject to the provisions in this Act, until they are reappointed or replaced.
Any reference to the Farm Products Marketing Commission in any other Act or in any regulation, rule, order, by-law, agreement or other instrument or document shall be read as a reference to the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission unless the context requires otherwise.
2000, c.26, s.208; 2007, c.10, s.60; 2007, c.36, s.3; 2010, c.31, s.89
The Commission shall consist of nine members, including a Chairperson, a Vice-Chairperson and seven other members.
The members shall be appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to hold office during good behaviour for a term of five years and are eligible for reappointment.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint two of the members as Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson.
The membership of the Commission shall consist of
(a) one member representing the Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries;
(b) one member representing the interests of consumers;
(c) one member representing the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick;
(d) one member representing the New Brunswick Milk Dealers Association;
(e) three members who are engaged directly as producers in the marketing of a farm product; and
(f) two members nominated by the Minister.
Notwithstanding the expiration of a member’s term, a member of the Commission shall remain a member until reappointed or replaced.
Five members of the Commission constitute a quorum.
A vacancy on the Commission does not impair the right of the remaining members to act.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may authorize the payment of an honorarium to members of the Commission and may fix the rate for reimbursement of expenses incurred by the members while acting on behalf of the Commission.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a secretary of the Commission, and provide for the appointment of such other officers, agents and employees as are necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act and the regulations, orders and plans, and may fix their remuneration.
The Commission may make rules governing the procedure at its meetings and the Regulations Act does not apply to such rules.
2007, c.36, s.4Any member may participate in a meeting of the Commission by means of telephone or other communication facilities that permit all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other, and any member participating in a meeting by those means shall be deemed to be present at that meeting. 2007, c.36, s.4
2007, c.36, s.5; 2007, c.69, s.2
The Commission has the following powers:
(a) to investigate, arbitrate, adjudicate upon, adjust or otherwise settle any dispute involving producers, agencies, boards, processors, distributors or transporters of farm products;
(b) to investigate the cost of producing, processing, distributing and transporting any farm product, prices, price spreads, trade practices, methods of financing, management, grading, policies and other matters relating to the marketing or the production and marketing of a farm product;
(c) to require persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of a farm product, in the promotion of the consumption and use of a farm product, or in research activities pertaining to a farm product to register with the Commission, agency, board, a Crown corporation or another body or person the following information:
(i) their names;
(ii) their addresses;
(iii) the parcel identifier number or numbers assigned by Service New Brunswick to land used for the marketing or the production and marketing of a farm product, for the promotion of the consumption and use of a farm product or for research activities pertaining to a farm product or to land used for the disposal of a farm product;
(iv) their occupations; and
(v) any other information prescribed by regulation;
(d) to require persons engaged in the marketing, the production and marketing or the processing of a regulated product to furnish such information relating to the marketing, the production and marketing or the processing of the regulated product, including the completing and filing of reports or returns on a periodic basis or otherwise as the Commission or board determines;
(e) to require persons engaged in the promotion of the consumption and use of a farm product or in research activities pertaining to a farm product to furnish such information relating to such promotion and activities, including the completing and filing of reports or returns on a periodic basis or otherwise as the Commission or agency determines;
(f) to require the furnishing of security or proof of financial responsibility by any person engaged in the marketing of a regulated product and to provide for the administration and disposition of all money or securities so furnished;
(g) to cooperate with a marketing board, local board, commodity board, marketing commission or marketing agency of Canada or of any province in Canada for the purpose of the marketing, the production and marketing or the processing of any regulated product;
(h) to cooperate with a board, commission or agency of Canada or of any province in Canada for the purpose of promoting the consumption and use of any farm product or the purpose of research activities pertaining to any farm product; and
(i) to do such acts and make such orders and issue such directions not inconsistent with a plan or the regulations as are necessary to enforce the due observance and carrying out of the provisions of this Act, the regulations or any plan.
The Commission has the following additional powers in relation to the dairy industry and the dairy products trade:
(a) to establish or prescribe within the Province or within the limits of any area in the Province that it may designate, a price or scale of prices to be paid for fluid milk products or fluid cream products;
(b) to fix the rates and charges or the maximum and minimum or maximum or minimum rates or charges that a transporter is authorized to charge for the transportation of milk, the schedules and service that such a transporter must observe and provide, and the hours during which the transportation of milk is permissible;
(c) to supervise, control and regulate, in the Province, the purchase, transportation, handling, processing, preparation, storing, delivery, sale and distribution of milk or cream;
(d) to prescribe and define the rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities of transporters and shippers and receivers in relation to the carriage and delivery of milk or cream;
(e) to establish classifications for milk or cream based on the use made of the milk or cream by milk dealers and other persons processing milk or processing or manufacturing cream in the Province;
(f) to establish a price or the method of determining the price paid by milk dealers or other persons processing milk or processing or manufacturing cream in the Province for each classification of milk or cream established under paragraph (e);
(g) to prescribe the time within which payment of the price established under paragraph (f) shall be made;
(h) to regulate the manufacture, processing, distribution or sale of reconstituted milk;
(i) to prescribe the books of accounts, records and reports to be kept or made by any producer, milk dealer or transporter of milk;
(j) to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which milk or cream may be produced, received, handled, transported, stored, delivered, supplied, processed, kept for sale or sold, and to prescribe the method of determining the butterfat or other components of milk or cream;
(k) to provide that milk or cream shall be marketed by or through the Commission or the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick, and to fix, impose and collect service charges to meet the expenses of marketing milk or cream;
(l) to require any person who produces milk to sell milk to or through the Commission or the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick, and to prohibit any person from marketing milk otherwise than by or through the Commission or the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick, as the case may be; and
(m) to conduct or to permit the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick to conduct a pool for the distribution of money received from the sale of milk and
(i) after deducting all expenses, to distribute the remainder of the money so that the payment to each person entitled to share is based on the volume, components or other factors determined by the Commission or the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick, as the case may be, of the milk supplied by the person and the amount of quota for the marketing of milk allotted to the person, and
(ii) to make an initial payment on delivery of milk and subsequent payments until the remainder of the money received from the sale is distributed.
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (3).
2007, c.36, s.6
For the purposes of an investigation under this Part, the Commission may delegate such of its powers as it considers necessary to one or more of its members or to any other person and may establish terms and conditions as to the exercise of such power and may terminate such delegation at any time.
The Commission, or person delegated its powers to conduct an investigation, shall have for the purposes of conducting an investigation all the powers and privileges conferred on commissioners appointed under the Inquiries Act, and all of the provisions of that Act when applicable to and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Part shall apply to this Part.
The Commission may take any action referred to in subsection (4) if the Commission reasonably believes that an agency, board or person carrying out functions on behalf of an agency or board is committing an act or pursuing a course of conduct that may
(a) violate this Act or the regulations,
(b) constitute an unsound business practice,
(c) prejudice the interests of persons for whose benefit the agency or board has been established,
(d) constitute a failure by the agency or board or person to file a report or document required to be filed with the Commission or to provide information required to be provided to the Commission,
(e) lead to a defect, irregularity or inconsistency in the administration of a plan, or
(f) fall outside the scope, purposes or powers of the agency or board.
For the purposes of subsection (3), the Commission may do any one or more of the following:
(a) investigate the business and affairs of the agency or board, or the business and affairs of the person carrying out functions on behalf of the agency or board;
(b) prepare a report concerning the results of an investigation and, where the Commission considers it necessary, make the report public; and
(c) order the agency or board to take such remedial action as the Commission considers necessary.
The Commission may make orders 2007, c.36, s.7
(a) providing that each agency or board file with the Commission, within the time prescribed by the Commission, true copies of
(i) minutes of all meetings of the agency or board,
(ii) all by-laws of the agency or board,
(iii) all orders, decisions or determinations of the agency or board,
(iv) all annual reports of operations of the agency or board,
(v) all audited financial statements of the agency or board,
(vii) such further statements, reports and documents, regardless of form, that are in the possession of an agency or board as the Commission requires;
(a.1) respecting the system of bookkeeping and accounting to be adopted by an agency or board, and the form of and the manner in which all books of account, records, and other books and documents of an agency or board shall be kept;
(a.2) respecting the system of auditing of the accounts, records, and other books and documents of an agency or board, the qualifications of an auditor, the manner of performing an audit, the reports and information to be made and furnished by an auditor, and otherwise with respect to the performance of an auditor’s duties;
(a.3) respecting information to be made and furnished by an agency or board to the Commission, and the time when and by whom the information shall be provided;
(b) providing for
(i) the furnishing to persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of a regulated product of copies of the annual report of operations and the financial statements of each agency or board, or
(ii) the publication of the annual report of operations and the financial statement of each agency or board;
(c) authorizing any agency or board to appoint agents, to prescribe their duties and terms and conditions of employment and to provide for their remuneration; and
(d) notwithstanding any other Act, respecting
(i) the carrying out by the Commission or a trustee of any or all of the powers of an agency or board,
(ii) the vesting in the Commission or a trustee of the assets of an agency or board and, where any order made under this subparagraph is in conflict with any by-law of the agency or board, the order prevails, and
(iii) the dissolving of an agency or board and the distribution of its assets.
2017, c.2, s.5
(a) a member, employee or officer of the Commission;
(b) a member, employee or officer of an agency or board; and
(c) a laboratory that performs analysis, grading or testing of samples.
No person shall communicate any information referred to in subsection (1) to any other person, except
(a) for purposes relating to the enforcement of this Act, the regulations, the orders or any plan, or for purposes relating to a hearing or appeal under this Act;
(b) on the request or with the written permission of the person to whom the matter relates;
(c) for purposes relating to the enforcement of a Canadian Act or any marketing plan established under a Canadian Act; or
(d) in the case of a laboratory, for purposes relating to analysis, grading or testing of samples and providing notification of test results under this Act or the regulations.
The Commission has general supervision over all agencies and boards constituted under this Act and shall perform such other duties and functions and exercise such authority prescribed by regulation in order to carry out the purpose and intent of this Act.
The Commission may, by order, delegate to an agency or board such of its powers under this Act and the regulations as it considers necessary.
In a delegation, the Commission may establish terms and conditions as to the exercise of such powers and may limit the powers of the agency or board in any or all respects.
The Commission may, by order, terminate a delegation at any time.
The Commission may amend or revoke any order, decision, direction, rule, by-law, resolution or determination of an agency or board.
Except with the approval of the Commission, an agency or board shall not make an order, decision, direction, rule, by-law, resolution or determination on the same matter as or a matter related to an order, decision, direction, rule, by-law, resolution or determination amended or revoked by the Commission.
The Commission may substitute its own order, decision, direction, rule, by-law, resolution or determination for that of an agency or board.
2007, c.36, s.8
Upon the request of a group of producers who market a farm product in the Province or in an area of the Province, the Commission may, if it is of the opinion after investigation that such group is fairly representative of the producers who market that farm product in the Province or in that area, recommend to the Minister that a board be established for the purpose of the promotion, control and regulation within the Province or that area of the marketing of the farm product and, if requested, for any or any combination of the following purposes:
(a) the promotion, control and regulation within the Province or that area of the production of the farm product;
(b) if the farm product is a farm product of the forest, the development, conservation and management of forestry resources on private woodlots in the Province or that area;
(c) the promotion of the consumption and use of the farm product; or
(d) research activities pertaining to the farm product.
Where no board is established under subsection (1) in respect of the same farm product, and upon the request of a group of producers of a farm product in the Province or in an area of the Province, the Commission may, if it is of the opinion after investigation that such group is fairly representative of the producers who produce that farm product in the Province or in that area, recommend to the Minister that an agency be established for either or both of the following purposes:
(a) the promotion of the consumption and use of the farm product; or
(b) research activities pertaining to the farm product.
Where the Commission is of the opinion that a plan should be amended or where it receives from an agency, board or group of producers a request that amendments be made to a plan or a regulation under this section, the Commission may recommend such amendment to the Minister.
Before making a recommendation to the Minister under this section, the Commission may ascertain the opinion of such producers who will be affected by the proposed amendment as the Commission considers necessary.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, may make regulations
(a) respecting the establishment, amendment or revocation of a plan to establish a board, under any name approved by the Commission, for the purpose of the promotion, control and regulation within the Province or an area of the Province of the marketing of a farm product and, if recommended, for any or any combination of the purposes referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (d);
(b) where no board is established for the same farm product, respecting the establishment, amendment or revocation of a plan to establish an agency, under any name approved by the Commission, for either or both of the purposes referred to in subsection (2).
A plan in a regulation under subsection (5) shall include:
(a) the farm product that is the subject of the plan;
(b) where a board is established, the purpose or purposes for which the board is established;
(c) where an agency is established, the purpose or purposes for which the agency is established;
(d) whether the plan applies to all of the Province or to an area in the Province; and
(e) Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.8
(f) the methods by which the operation of the plan is to be financed.
A regulation under subsection (5) may apply to
(a) one or more farm products or any part, class, variety, grade or size of farm product, including any part or class of farm product produced or marketed for a particular purpose,
(b) where a board is established, any or all persons engaged in marketing or in producing and marketing such farm products, and
(c) where an agency is established, any or all persons engaged in producing such farm products.
An agency or board shall carry out the purposes for which it is established in accordance with the powers conferred on, delegated to or vested in it under this Act and the regulations.
Where there is a plan established by regulation under subsection 18(5), the Commission may, by regulation,
(a) prescribe the number of members of an agency or board and the method by which the members are to be chosen, whether by appointment or election, or partly one way and partly the other;
(b) prescribe by-laws for the conduct of the government of an agency or board, including one for the appointment of an executive committee of an agency or board to exercise such powers as may be conferred upon it by the agency or board, and provide that any power so exercised by the executive committee shall be deemed to have been exercised by the agency or board;
(c) provide for the establishment of advisory committees to advise and make recommendations to the agency or board in respect of any matter respecting which the agency or board is empowered to make orders under this Act, the regulations or the plan;
(d) determine the constitution of advisory committees and prescribe the practice and procedure to be followed by such committees;
(e) empower an agency or board to make by-laws not inconsistent with this Act, the regulations or the plan.
A board is a body corporate.
A board is not a Crown corporation and is not an agent of the Crown in right of the Province and the chairperson, other members of the board and employees of the board are not part of the public service of New Brunswick. 2023, c.17, s.168
2008, c.44, s.3
A board shall provide bonding for such of its officers, employees and agents as the Commission requires.
Repealed: 2008, c.44, s.3
A board may, with the approval of the Commission and subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission determines from time to time, establish and maintain one or more funds which may be used to indemnify producers or protect producers against financial loss suffered by them or on their behalf in respect of the marketing of a regulated product.
Where a fund is established under subsection (1), the board may, by order, levy and collect from the producers such amounts as are required for the operation of the fund, and the payments made into the fund shall not form part of the licence fee or service charge applicable to those producers.
The Insurance Act does not apply to a fund operated under this section.
2007, c.36, s.9
A board may exercise the powers conferred upon, delegated to or vested in it under this Act and the regulations.
Subject to this Act and the regulations, a board may make orders or issue directions in the exercise of the powers conferred upon, delegated to or vested in it under this Act and the regulations.
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (2).
A board may perform any function or duty and exercise any power imposed or conferred upon it under any law of Canada respecting regulated products.
Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.9
A board may enter into contracts for the sale of a regulated product for such periods of time and at such price or prices as it considers advisable.
Before borrowing money or guaranteeing the repayment of a loan, a board shall obtain the authorization in writing of the Commission, and such authorization shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission may specify.
No board shall make grants, gifts or other similar payments of money in excess of one thousand dollars to any person, association or body of persons without the approval of the Commission.
2007, c.36, s.10; 2023, c.2, s.191
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations vesting in a board the following powers:
(a) to prohibit the marketing or the production and marketing, in whole or in part, of any regulated product;
(b) to market a regulated product;
(c) to regulate the time and place at which, and to designate the body by or through which, a regulated product shall be marketed or produced and marketed;
(d) to regulate the manner in which a regulated product may be marketed or produced and marketed;
(e) to require any and all persons before commencing or continuing in the marketing or the production and marketing of a regulated product to register with and obtain licences from the board, and to prohibit any person from marketing or producing and marketing a regulated product without a licence;
(f) to fix and collect periodic licence fees or charges for services rendered by the board from any and all persons marketing or producing and marketing a regulated product, and for this purpose to classify such persons into groups, and fix the licence fees and charges or either of them payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts, and to recover any such licence fees and charges or either of them in any court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) to suspend or cancel a licence for violation of any provision of this Act, a plan, a regulation or any order of the board and to reinstate a licence that has been suspended or cancelled;
(h) to require a regulated product to be marketed or produced and marketed on a quota basis;
(i) to fix and allot to persons quotas for the marketing or the production and marketing of a regulated product on such basis as the board considers proper and to establish such quotas with respect to designated lands and premises;
(j) to require that hens be possessed on a quota basis and to fix and allot to persons quotas with respect to the possession of hens on such basis as the board considers proper;
(l) to cancel, reduce, suspend or refuse to increase a quota fixed and allotted to any person under paragraph (i) or (j) for any reason that the board considers proper, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to cancel or reduce any such quota as a penalty where the board has reasonable grounds for believing that the person to whom the quota was fixed and allotted has contravened any provision of this Act or any regulation, order or plan;
(q) to prohibit any person to whom a quota has been fixed and allotted under paragraph (i) or (j) from marketing or producing and marketing any of the regulated product in excess of the quota, or from having in his or her possession a greater number of hens than that permitted under the quota, as the case may be;
(r) to prohibit any person to whom a quota has been fixed and allotted under paragraph (i) with respect to designated lands or premises from marketing any of the regulated product other than the regulated product produced on those lands or premises;
(s) to fix the price or prices, maximum price or prices, or both maximum and minimum prices at which the regulated product, or any grade or class of it, may be bought or sold in the Province, and to fix different prices for different parts or areas of the Province;
(t) to require the price or prices payable or owing to persons for the regulated product to be paid to or through the board and to recover such price or prices in a court of competent jurisdiction;
(u) to require any person who produces a regulated product to offer to sell and to sell the regulated product to or through the board established in respect to that regulated product;
(v) to prohibit any person from processing, packing or packaging any of the regulated product that has not been sold to, by or through the board established in respect of that regulated product;
(w) to use, in carrying out the purposes of a plan and paying the expenses of the board, any money received by the board;
(x) to require any person who receives a regulated product to deduct from the money payable for the regulated product any licence fee or charge referred to in paragraph (f) that is payable to the board by the person marketing or producing and marketing the regulated product received and to forward that licence fee or charge to the board or its agent designated for that purpose;
(y) to implement and administer forest management programs on private woodlots;
(z) to undertake and assist in the promotion of the consumption and use of any regulated product in relation to which it may exercise its powers, the improvement of the quality and variety of such regulated product and the publication of information in relation to such regulated product;
(aa) to undertake or to engage other persons to conduct research activities with respect to, and advertise and promote in any other manner, the regulated product in relation to which it may exercise its powers;
(bb) to cooperate with any Canadian Board or Provincial Board to regulate the marketing of a regulated product of the Province and to act conjointly with the Canadian Board or Provincial Board for such purposes;
(cc) to make such orders as are considered by the board necessary or advisable to regulate effectively the marketing or the production and marketing of a regulated product or to exercise any power vested in the board;
(dd) the powers of a corporation under the Business Corporations Act and, subject to this Act, in the exercise of such powers the members of the board shall be deemed to be its shareholders and directors.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations vesting in a board established for the promotion, control and regulation of the production and marketing of eggs or poultry, or both eggs and poultry, the following powers:
(a) to require the licensing of any person who maintains hens and to prohibit any person from maintaining hens without a licence;
(b) to enter on lands or premises used for producing eggs or poultry and to perform a count of poultry on those lands or premises.
A regulation under this section may be limited as to time and place.
Where any person who receives a regulated product is required in a regulation under paragraph (1)(x) to deduct from the money payable for the regulated product any licence fee or charge referred to in paragraph (1)(f) that is payable to a board by the person marketing or producing and marketing the regulated product received, the licence fee or charge that has been deducted or should have been deducted from the money payable for the regulated product shall constitute a debt due to the board from the person who received the regulated product and may be recovered by action in the name of the board in any court of competent jurisdiction.
2007, c.36, s.11
The Commission may make regulations vesting in a board the following powers:
(a) to regulate the quantity and quality, grade or class of a regulated product that may be marketed at any time and to prohibit, in whole or in part, the marketing of any grade, quality or class of a regulated product except through the board;
(b) to exempt from any order of the board any person or class of persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of a regulated product or any class, variety or grade of a regulated product;
(c) to conduct a pool or pools for the distribution of money received from the sale of the regulated product, and, after deducting all expenses, to distribute the remainder of the money so that the payment to each person entitled to share is based on the amount, class, variety and grade of the regulated product delivered by him or her, and to make an initial payment on delivery of the regulated product and subsequent payments until the remainder of the money received from the sale is distributed;
(d) to appoint officers and employees, assign their duties and fix their remuneration.
Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed to prohibit or restrict any person from maintaining hens or other poultry or from producing eggs from those hens or other poultry solely for the personal consumption of that person or his or her family.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or the regulations, orders or plans, the Commission may, subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission may specify, make regulations vesting in the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick the following powers:
(a) to take or otherwise acquire and hold shares in any corporation carrying on any business that relates to milk, cream or milk components, whether processed or not, to be marketed outside Canada and that the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick consider is capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit the dairy industry and the dairy products trade;
(b) to market milk, cream or milk components, whether processed or not, outside Canada.
A regulation of the Commission under this section may be limited as to time and place.
An agency is a body corporate.
An agency is not a Crown corporation and is not an agent of the Crown in right of the Province and the chairperson, other members of the agency and employees of the agency are not part of the public service of New Brunswick. 2023, c.17, s.168
2008, c.44, s.3
An agency shall provide bonding for such of its officers, employees and agents as the Commission requires.
Repealed: 2008, c.44, s.3
An agency may exercise the powers conferred upon, delegated to or vested in it under this Act and the regulations.
Subject to this Act and the regulations, an agency may make orders or issue directions in the exercise of the powers conferred upon, delegated to or vested in it under this Act and the regulations.
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (2).
When authorized by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, an agency may, to the extent of the authorization, exercise any of the powers conferred upon it under any law of Canada respecting farm products, whether enacted before or after the commencement of this subsection.
The Regulations Act does not apply to an authorization under subsection (4).
Before borrowing money or guaranteeing the repayment of a loan, an agency shall obtain the authorization in writing of the Commission, and such authorization shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission may specify.
No agency shall make grants, gifts or other similar payments of money in excess of one thousand dollars to any person, association or body of persons without the approval of the Commission.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations vesting in an agency the powers of a corporation under the Business Corporations Act and, subject to this Act, in the exercise of such powers the members of the agency shall be deemed to be its shareholders and directors. 2023, c.2, s.191
The Commission may make regulations vesting in an agency the following powers:
(a) to exempt from the plan respecting promotion or research of a farm product any producer or class of producers;
(b) to appoint officers and employees, assign their duties and fix their remuneration;
(c) to undertake and assist in the promotion of the consumption and use of any farm product in relation to which it may exercise its powers, the improvement of the quality and variety of such farm product and the publication of information in relation to such farm product;
(d) to undertake or to engage other persons to conduct research activities with respect to, and advertise and promote in any other manner, the farm product in relation to which it may exercise its powers.
In this Part
“marketing agency” means a marketing agency of Canada that is authorized to exercise powers of regulation in relation to the marketing of a regulated product in interprovincial or export trade.(agence de commercialisation)
2001, c.39, s.13; 2007, c.36, s.12
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by regulation, grant to any board or marketing agency in relation to the marketing or the production and marketing of any regulated product locally within the Province, authority
(a) to fix levies or charges and to impose them on and collect them from persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the whole or any part of the regulated product;
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a), to classify the persons referred to in that paragraph into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts; and
(c) to use the levies or charges under paragraph (a) for the purposes of such board or marketing agency, including
(i) the creation of reserves,
(ii) the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of any such regulated product,
(iii) the equalization or adjustment among producers of any regulated product of money realized from the sale of such regulated product during such period or periods of time as the board or marketing agency may determine, and
(iv) promotion and research activities.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may impose terms and conditions respecting the authority.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may
(a) require any person or class of persons who markets primary forest products produced on a private woodlot in the regulated area defined in the regulation, to provide, within such time as is prescribed in the regulation, to any person who receives such primary forest products and to the board or marketing agency referred to in the regulation, a declaration containing such information as is prescribed by regulation;
(b) Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.12
(c) Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.12
(d) require any person or class of persons who receives primary forest products from a private woodlot, to deduct from the money payable for the primary forest products any levies or charges payable to a board by the person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the primary forest products received and to forward such levies or charges to the board or its agent designated for that purpose.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may require any person who receives a regulated product to deduct from the money payable for the regulated product any levies or charges payable to a board or marketing agency by the person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product received and to forward such levies or charges to the board or marketing agency or its agent designated for that purpose.
Where a board or marketing agency is granted authority under subsection (1), the board or marketing agency may, in the exercise of that authority, make orders or issue directions subject to any terms and conditions in the regulations under subsection (1).
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (5).
Where a board or marketing agency is granted authority to fix, impose and collect levies or charges under subsection 37(1), the amount of any levies or charges that are due and payable by a person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the whole or any part of the regulated product shall constitute a debt due to the board or marketing agency from such person and may be recovered by action in the name of the board or marketing agency in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Where any person who receives a regulated product is required under subsection 37(3) or (4) to deduct from the money payable for the regulated product any levies or charges payable to a board or marketing agency by the person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product received, the amount of any levies or charges that have been deducted or should have been deducted from the money payable for the regulated product under subsection 37(3) or (4) shall constitute a debt due to the board or marketing agency from the person who received the regulated product and may be recovered by action in the name of the board or marketing agency in any court of competent jurisdiction.
2001, c.39, s.13; 2007, c.36, s.13
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by regulation, grant to a board in relation to the development, conservation and management of forestry resources on private woodlots in the Province authority
(a) to fix levies or charges and to impose them on and collect them from persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of primary forest products on private woodlots;
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a), to classify the persons referred to in paragraph (a) into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts; and
(c) to use the levies or charges under paragraph (a) for the purposes of implementing and administering forest management programs on private woodlots.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may impose terms and conditions respecting the authority.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may
(a) require any person or class of persons who markets primary forest products produced on a private woodlot in the regulated area defined in the regulation, to provide, within such time as is prescribed in the regulation, to any person who receives such primary forest products and to the board referred to in the regulation, a declaration containing such information as is prescribed by regulation;
(b) Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.13
(c) Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.13
(d) require any person or class of persons who receives primary forest products from a private woodlot, to deduct from the money payable for the primary forest products any levies or charges payable to a board by the person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the primary forest products received and to forward such levies or charges to the board or its agent designated for that purpose.
Where a board is granted authority under subsection (1), the board may, in the exercise of that authority, make orders or issue directions subject to any terms and conditions in the regulations under subsection (1).
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (4).
Where a board is granted authority under subsection 39(1) to fix, impose and collect levies or charges, the amount of any levies or charges that are due and payable by a person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of primary forest products on private woodlots shall constitute a debt due to the board from such person and may be recovered by action in the name of the board in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Where any person who receives primary forest products from a private woodlot is required under subsection 39(3) to deduct from the money payable for the primary forest products any levies or charges payable to a board by the person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the primary forest products received, the amount of any levies or charges that have been deducted or should have been deducted from the money payable for the primary forest products under subsection 39(3) shall constitute a debt due to the board from the person who received the primary forest products and may be recovered by action in the name of the board in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by regulation, grant to any agency in relation to the promotion of or research pertaining to any farm product locally within the Province, authority
(a) to fix levies or charges and to impose them on and collect them from persons engaged in the production of the whole or any part of the farm product;
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a), to classify the persons referred to in that paragraph into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts; and
(c) to use the levies or charges under paragraph (a) for the purposes of such agency, including expenses of the agency and promotion and research activities.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may impose terms and conditions respecting the authority.
In a regulation under subsection (1), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may require any person who receives a farm product to deduct from the money payable for the farm product any levies or charges payable to an agency by the person engaged in the production of the farm product received and to forward such levies or charges to the agency or its agent designated for that purpose.
Where an agency is granted authority under subsection (1), the agency may, in the exercise of that authority, make orders or issue directions subject to any terms and conditions in the regulations under subsection (1).
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (5).
2008, c.37, s.12008, c.37, s.1
The following definitions apply in this section.
“chicken” means a bird of the species Gallus domesticus.(poulet)
“instrument” means an order, decision, direction, rule, by-law, resolution or determination.(instrument)
Despite any other provision of this Act, excluding this section, and despite any provision of the regulations or an instrument made under the authority of this Act, only the Minister may, until the expiration of this section, designate the plants where chicken may be processed.
If the Minister makes a designation under subsection (2), he or she shall do so by means of an order.
The Regulations Act does not apply to an order made by the Minister for the purposes of subsection (2).
Subject to subsection (6), this section and any order made under this section expire one year after the date this section comes into force.
Before the expiration of the year referred to in subsection (5), the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by Order in Council, change the expiration date but shall not extend the expiration date by more than one additional year. No more than one Order in Council may be made under this subsection.
The Regulations Act does not apply to an Order in Council referred to in subsection (6).
In this Part
“producer” means a person who produces and sells or supplies milk or cream from his or her own herd to a board.(producteur)
Where the Commission considers it expedient, it may by order designate or establish the limits of an area in the Province for trade in dairy products.
The Commission may make further orders with respect to the dairy products trade in or affecting an area as it may consider expedient in the interest of the consumer in the area and the persons engaged directly or indirectly in such trade in or affecting the area.
Where the Commission considers it expedient, it may by order vary or abolish the limits of any area designated or established in this section, and vary or revoke any further orders relating to the dairy products trade in any such area accordingly.
2007, c.36, s.14
All persons engaged in the dairy products trade shall be classified as follows:
(a) producer;
(b) milk dealer;
(c) milk vendor;
(d) bulk tank milk grader;
(d.1) milk grader;
(e) transporter; or
(f) such other classifications as are prescribed in the regulations or orders under section 57.
The Commission may determine the classification applicable to any person and its decision is final.
2007, c.36, s.15
Except where exempted in accordance with the regulations or orders under section 57, and subject to subsection (2), no person shall engage in the producing, processing or marketing of milk or any dairy product unless he or she is the holder of a valid licence under this Part in a classification under section 44.
Except where exempted in accordance with the regulations or orders under section 57, no person shall engage in the dairy products trade as a milk dealer or milk vendor in an area designated or established under section 43 unless he or she is the holder of a valid licence under this Part for a milk dealer or milk vendor, as the case may be, in that area.
No licence shall be issued unless the Commission is satisfied that its issuance is in the interest of the general public or the dairy products trade.
Subject to any provision of this Part, a licence issued under this Part expires on the thirty-first day of March next following its issuance.
No licence issued under this Part is transferable except with the written permission of the Commission.
The Commission may suspend, cancel or reinstate a licence in its discretion and, if any regulations or orders have been made under section 57, in accordance with the regulations or orders.
The Commission may impose terms and conditions on the issuance, suspension, cancellation or reinstatement of a licence under this Part in accordance with the regulations or orders under section 57.
In addition to any terms and conditions imposed in accordance with the regulations or orders under section 57, the Commission may impose such terms and conditions as it considers appropriate on the issuance, suspension, cancellation or reinstatement of a licence under this Part.
A licence issued under this Part to engage in one classification of the dairy products trade does not authorize a person to engage in any other classification.
No person shall engage in any classification of the dairy products trade unless he or she is the holder of a valid licence issued under this Part for that classification.
The Commission may issue to a single person licences for two or more classifications.
Where a person has licences issued under this Part for two or more classifications, the person has all the rights and privileges for each classification and is subject to all the duties and obligations of each classification.
Any person who is a producer and milk dealer shall be deemed to have received, in his or her capacity as a milk dealer, from himself or herself in his or her capacity as a producer, the milk or cream produced by him or her that he or she distributes, and to have contracted in that capacity with himself or herself in his or her capacity as a producer for the marketing of such milk or cream on the condition that the regulations and orders made under this Act apply.
Every person who in the opinion of the Commission is directly or indirectly engaged in or connected with the dairy products trade shall make, in such form and manner and within or for such time as the Commission determines, any report considered necessary by the Commission for the purposes of this Part or the regulations or orders under this Part.
No person shall suffer, give, accept or be party to any rebate, discount, premium, bonus, prize or any other method, scheme or practice with the intention of, or which in the opinion of the Commission results in, the buying or selling of fluid milk products or fluid cream products in the Province or in an area designated or established under section 43 at a price less than that established by the Commission for such sale.
For the purposes of this section, a person who works in connection with or purports to act on behalf of any other person is deemed to be the employee or agent of such other person.
Where, on the report of an inspector, the Commission has reasonable grounds to believe that milk does not comply with the requirements of this Act or the regulations, orders or plans, the Commission may make an order prohibiting the delivery, sale or offering for sale to a dairy plant or the receipt at a dairy plant of the milk by the persons, within the period of time and in accordance with any other directions set out in the order.
An order under subsection (1) shall be in writing and shall contain reasons for its making.
An order under subsection (1) shall be served personally on the owner of the milk or the person who has control of the milk.
No appeal lies from an order under subsection (1).
2007, c.36, s.16
The Commission may make regulations or orders for the carrying out of this Part, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, regulations or orders in respect of the powers of the Commission under subsection 11(2), and regulations or orders
(a) prescribing classifications of licences for the purposes of subsection 44(1);
(c) respecting licensing under this Part, including the application for and the issuance, suspension, cancellation and reinstatement of a licence, the terms and conditions upon which a licence may be issued, suspended, cancelled or reinstated, the form of a licence and the fees to be charged for the issuance or reinstatement of a licence;
(d) respecting the giving or payment of security by applicants for licences and holders of licences, including the type and amount of security, the conditions under which security is to be given or paid and the deposit, safe keeping, administration, application, distribution, adjustment, substitution, forfeiture and disposition of such security;
(e) defining fluid milk products;
(f) defining fluid cream products;
(g) defining manufactured milk products;
(h) prescribing the minimum and maximum percentages of butterfat and the minimum percentage of solids not fat in any fluid milk product, fluid cream product or manufactured milk product;
(i) prohibiting the sale of any class of fluid milk product, fluid cream product or manufactured milk product which does not meet the minimum percentage of butterfat or the minimum percentage of solids not fat, or both, as determined under paragraph (h);
(j) respecting the regulation and inspection of vehicles of any kind by which milk or cream is transported;
(k) respecting the control and inspection of premises at which the storage, production, care, manufacture or processing of milk or cream is carried on;
(l) respecting the conditions of construction, installation and maintenance of equipment used by any person engaged directly or indirectly in the dairy products trade;
(m) respecting the regulation of the methods of the manufacture of dairy products;
(n) respecting the payment for milk by a milk dealer;
(o) respecting the quality, kind, cleanliness, testing, storage, production, care, manufacture, processing, transportation and sale of milk or cream;
(p) respecting the imposition on and collection from a producer of penalties where any milk supplied by the producer fails to comply with the standards of quality for such milk under the regulations or is produced on premises or with equipment that fails to comply with the regulations and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, where such milk
(i) contains any substance prohibited by the regulations,
(ii) contains a substance in excess of the amount permitted by the regulations, or
(iii) has a substance removed from it contrary to the regulations;
(q) respecting the terms and conditions under which the penalties referred to in paragraph (p) are payable, the amount of the penalties, the method by which the penalties are calculated, the times at which the penalties are payable, to whom the penalties are payable and how the penalties are to be used;
(r) respecting the form of any report required by this Part;
(s) for the purposes of this Part, defining words and expressions used in this Part but not defined in this Act;
(t) respecting inspections under this Part, including the inspection of accounts of milk dealers and the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick;
(u) respecting the establishment of a wholesale or retail price or scale of wholesale or retail prices to be paid for fluid milk products or fluid cream products sold by milk dealers in an area for which the Commission has made an order under section 43.
A regulation or order under this section may contain different provisions for different classifications of persons engaged in the dairy products trade.
Where a regulation and an order under this section conflict, the regulation prevails.
The Commission may appoint any person as an inspector for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, orders and plans.
The Commission may appoint as an inspector under this Act any inspector employed in the Province under and for the enforcement of any Canadian Act.
The Commission shall furnish every person appointed as an inspector with a certificate of his or her appointment as an inspector.
For the purposes of administering this Act and the regulations, orders and plans and ensuring compliance with this Act and the regulations, orders and plans, an inspector may at any reasonable time
(a) enter any place or premises used or being used for the storage, production, processing or marketing of farm products or that the inspector believes is being so used;
(b) enter any premises used for assembling, holding, slaughtering, storing, processing, grading, weighing or selling or offering for sale any livestock and inspect any livestock, facilities or equipment found in such premises;
(c) stop, enter and inspect any vehicle and its load;
(d) ride in or on such part of a vehicle and its load that the inspector considers necessary and for such period of time as the inspector considers necessary;
(e) require to be produced for inspection or for the purposes of obtaining copies or extracts, any books, shipping bills, bills of lading, sale records or other records or papers;
(f) detain a farm product for the time necessary to complete his or her inspection or until such time as the farm product complies with this Act and the regulations, orders and plans; and
(g) at the expense of the producer, packer or owner, take samples of farm products wherever or whenever he or she considers necessary.
Where an inspector has reason to believe that any regulated product is being produced, marketed or processed at any place other than a private dwelling place, the inspector may, during normal business hours, enter that place and examine and make copies or extracts of any book, record or other document kept there that, in his or her opinion, may contain any information relating to the regulated product.
The owner or person in charge of any place, premises, vehicle or load referred to in subsections (1) and (2) and any employees or agents of the owner or person in charge shall give an inspector all reasonable assistance to enable the inspector to carry out his or her duties and functions under this Act and the regulations, orders and plans and shall furnish the inspector with such information as the inspector may reasonably require.
An inspector may, as often as the Commission considers necessary, inspect the premises and dairy plant of any producer, milk dealer or milk vendor.
An inspector may at any place take samples of any dairy product for analysis, grading or testing, and the analysis, grades or tests of dairy products as determined by an inspector shall constitute the official analysis, grade or test and shall be the basis of final payment to a producer.
The Commission or its representative may, for the purposes of this Act or the regulations, orders or plans, examine the accounts and records of any person who in the opinion of the Commission is directly or indirectly engaged in or connected with the production, marketing or processing of any regulated product and may make copies of such accounts and records.
Any farm product detained under this Act is at all times at the risk and expense of the owner, but the inspector shall immediately notify such owner or person having possession of the farm product by letter, electronic means or otherwise that such farm product is being detained in storage or otherwise, as the case may be.
2007, c.36, s.17
A certificate purporting to be signed by an inspector is, without proof of the inspector’s appointment, authority or signature, admissible in evidence and is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the facts stated in the certificate.
A certificate referred to in subsection (1) shall not be received in evidence unless the party intending to produce it has given to the person against whom it is to be produced reasonable notice of the party’s intention, together with a copy of the certificate.
A person against whom a certificate referred to in subsection (1) is produced may, with leave of the court or the board, as the case may be, require the attendance of the person who signed the certificate for purposes of cross-examination.
No person shall obstruct or hinder an inspector in the carrying out of his or her duties and functions under this Act and the regulations, orders and plans.
No person shall refuse to permit any farm product to be inspected.
No person shall knowingly make a false or misleading statement, either verbally or in writing, to an inspector engaged in carrying out his or her duties and functions under this Act and the regulations, orders and plans.
No person shall refuse to permit any livestock, facilities or equipment to be inspected or refuse to furnish an inspector with information required to be provided under this Act or the regulations, orders or plans.
2007, c.69, s.52007, c.69, s.5; 2019, c.12, s.24
The Minister may appoint the following persons as farm product service officers for the purposes of this Act:
(a) persons employed under the Civil Service Act; and
(b) any other persons considered by the Minister to be suitable.
A farm product service officer may enter upon private lands whenever necessary for the proper performance of his or her duties and functions under this Act.
A document in writing signed by the Minister appointing a person as a farm product service officer for the purposes of this Act, shall, without proof of the appointment or signature of the Minister, be accepted by all courts in the Province as conclusive proof of the authority stated in the document.
The person in possession of a written appointment shall, upon proof that his or her name is the same as the person named in the document, be deemed to be the person named in the document.
2007, c.69, s.5A farm product service officer carrying out his or her duties and functions under this Act is a person employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace and has and may exercise all the powers, authorities and immunities of a peace officer as defined in the Criminal Code (Canada). 2007, c.69, s.5
Where any person is aggrieved or dissatisfied with any order, decision, direction or determination of an agency or board, he or she may appeal the order, decision, direction or determination to the Commission by serving upon it written notice of appeal not more than thirty days after he or she has notice of that order, decision, direction or determination.
A notice of appeal under subsection (1) shall contain a statement of the matter being appealed, the name and address of the person making the appeal, and the name and address of the agency or board being appealed from.
Upon receipt of a notice of appeal under subsection (1), the Commission shall forthwith notify the agency or board being appealed from and the agency or board shall immediately provide the Commission with every by-law, order or document of any kind pertaining to the matter being appealed from.
An appeal under subsection (1) stays the application of the order, decision, direction or determination in respect of which the appeal is made.
An appeal to the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission under section 65 shall be heard by a panel of that Commission consisting of one or more members of that Commission designated by the Chairperson or, in the absence or inability to act of the Chairperson, by the Vice-Chairperson.
The Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, as the case may be, may designate himself or herself for the purposes of subsection (1).
Where a panel under subsection (1) consists of more than one member and the Chairperson is designated as a member of the panel, he or she shall act as chairperson of the panel.
Where a panel under subsection (1) consists of more than one member and the Vice-Chairperson is designated as a member of the panel and the Chairperson is not designated as a member of the panel, the Vice-Chairperson shall act as chairperson of the panel.
Where a panel under subsection (1) consists of more than one member and neither the Chairperson nor the Vice-Chairperson is designated as a member of the panel, the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, as the case may be, shall designate one of the members of the panel as its chairperson.
An appeal to the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission under section 65 shall be heard by a panel of that Commission consisting of one or more members of that Commission designated by the chairman of that Commission.
The chairman of the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission may designate himself or herself for the purposes of subsection (6).
Where a panel under subsection (6) consists of more than one member and the chairman of the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission is designated as a member of the panel, he or she shall act as chairperson of the panel.
Where a panel under subsection (6) consists of more than one member and the chairman of the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission is not designated as a member of the panel, the chairman shall designate one of the members of the panel as its chairperson.
A panel under section 66 shall fix the time and place for the hearing of the appeal.
The Commission shall serve upon the person making the appeal and upon the agency or board, written notice of the time and place for the hearing of the appeal.
At the request of the person appealing or the agency or board being appealed from, a panel may adjourn or postpone a hearing for such period of time as it considers appropriate.
An adjournment or postponement under subsection (3) may be effected by telephone.
The hearing of an appeal shall be open to the public unless the panel directs otherwise.
At the hearing of an appeal, the person making the appeal has the right to attend and make representations and to adduce evidence respecting the appeal either by himself or herself or through counsel.
A panel has in relation to the hearing of an appeal all of the powers and privileges that commissioners have under the Inquiries Act.
A panel may record evidence by a sound recording machine, but is not required to do so.
A panel may consider fairness, undue hardship and the effect of the order, decision, direction or determination of an agency or board on the person appealing and may make a decision on the appeal which it considers fair and equitable in the circumstances.
On an appeal under section 65, a panel may
(a) dismiss the appeal, or
(b) allow the appeal and
(i) set aside the order, decision, direction or determination of the agency or board,
(ii) substitute its order, decision, direction or determination for that of the agency or board, or
(iii) exempt the person who made the appeal from application of the order, decision, direction or determination of the agency or board.
Where a panel consists of more than one member, a decision of the majority of the members of the panel is the decision of the panel, but if there is no majority, the decision of the chairperson of the panel is the decision of the panel.
Any decision, determination, direction, declaration, order or ruling of a panel shall be deemed to be a decision, determination, direction, declaration, order or ruling of the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission or the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission, as the case may be.
The Commission may make rules governing the procedure on an appeal under section 65 and the Regulations Act does not apply to such rules.
2023, c.17, s.168
The Commission may assess the parties to a hearing of an appeal under section 65 for all of the expenses of the hearing, including the expenses of witnesses and a court reporter.
An assessment is due and payable within thirty days after it is made.
An assessment made under subsection (1) constitutes a debt due by the person against whom it is made to the Crown in right of the Province, is payable on demand by the Commission and may be recovered as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
In any claim or action under this section, a certificate purporting to be signed by the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson or secretary of the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission, or by the chairman or secretary of the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission, as the case may be, setting out the amount of an assessment is, without proof of the appointment, authority or signature of the person purporting to have signed the certificate, admissible in evidence and is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the amount of the assessment set out in the certificate.
2023, c.17, s.168
An appeal lies from any decision of the Commission under this Part to The Court of Appeal of New Brunswick on the grounds of jurisdiction or on a question of law or mixed law and fact, if the appeal is made within thirty days after the date of the decision of the Commission.
A notice of appeal shall be served on the Commission and on such other persons as The Court of Appeal of New Brunswick directs.
Upon being served with a notice of appeal, the Commission shall file a record on appeal with the Registrar of The Court of Appeal of New Brunswick.
A record on appeal under subsection (3) shall consist of:
(a) a copy of the notice of appeal;
(b) a copy of any notice of hearing relating to the matter under appeal;
(c) all documents relating to the matter under appeal that were filed with the Commission;
(d) the transcript of the oral evidence, if any, given at the hearing before the panel; and
(e) the decision of the Commission and the reasons for the decision.
An appeal under this section stays the application of the decision of the Commission in respect of which the appeal is made.
After hearing the appeal, The Court of Appeal of New Brunswick may
(a) dismiss the appeal, or
(b) allow the appeal and
(i) set aside or vary the decision of the Commission, and
(ii) where it considers it appropriate to do so, refer the matter back to the Commission with directions.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the rules governing appeals to The Court of Appeal of New Brunswick from a decision of The Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick apply to appeals under this section.
This Part does not apply to a licence under Part IX.
A board may refuse to issue a licence to a person marketing or producing and marketing a regulated product where the issuance of a licence to that person would not be conducive to the maintenance or development of an efficient and competitive industry in respect of that product.
A person whose application for the issuance of a licence is refused without a hearing shall be given an opportunity to appear before the board to show cause why such licence should be issued.
An applicant for a licence or a licensee may request the reasons for a decision of a board under this Part and the board shall send the reasons to the applicant or licensee as soon as possible.
An application for a licence shall be considered by the board and a decision with respect to the application shall be made within sixty days after receipt of the application.
2014, c.5, s.2
The Commission may make regulations
(a) classifying and establishing grades for each kind of farm product;
(b) respecting the grading of farm products;
(c) prescribing standards for each grade of farm product;
(d) respecting the sale, processing or conveyance of ungraded farm products;
(e) respecting the construction, arrangement, maintenance and operation of premises used for the production or processing of farm products;
(f) respecting the construction, installation and maintenance of equipment used by any person engaged directly or indirectly in the production or processing of farm products;
(g) respecting the production and processing of farm products;
(h) respecting the training of and the practices to be followed by employees at premises used for the production or processing of farm products;
(i) respecting the handling and transportation of farm products;
(j) respecting the inspecting, weighing and grading of livestock;
(k) respecting the manner in which receipts, grades, weights and purchase prices shall be recorded by persons engaged in the buying and selling of livestock;
(l) respecting the manner in which buyers, sellers, transporters and shippers of livestock shall identify seller’s lots in a shipment, for the purposes of inspecting, weighing and grading;
(m) respecting the facilities and equipment to be provided and maintained for the weighing and grading of livestock on premises in which livestock is assembled, held, slaughtered, weighed or graded;
(n) for manufacturing or processing purposes as provided for in subsection 89(1), exempting any person from packing, advertising, selling, offering for sale, transporting for sale or processing any farm product in accordance with this Act or the regulations;
A regulation made under subsection (1) may adopt by reference, in whole or in part, with such changes as the Commission considers necessary, any code, standard, procedure or specification and may require compliance with the code, standard, procedure or specification.
An order made under subsection (5) or directions issued under subsection (5) may adopt by reference, in whole or in part, with such changes as the agency, board or other body considers necessary, any code, standard, procedure or specification and may require compliance with the code, standard, procedure or specification.
The Commission may, by order, delegate any power under subsection (1) to an agency, board or other body.
In a delegation under subsection (2), the Commission may establish terms and conditions as to the exercise of such power and may limit the powers of the agency, board or other body in any or all respects.
The Commission may, by order, terminate a delegation under subsection (2) at any time.
An agency, board or other body may make orders or issue directions in the exercise of the powers delegated to it under subsection (2).
The Regulations Act does not apply to directions referred to in subsection (5).
The Commission may amend or revoke any order or direction of an agency, board or other body under this section.
Except with the approval of the Commission, an agency, board or other body shall not make an order or issue a direction on the same matter as or a matter related to an order or direction amended or revoked by the Commission.
The Commission may substitute its own regulation or direction for an order or direction of an agency, board or other body under this section.
The Commission may make regulations
(a) prohibiting or regulating the marketing of a farm product that does not meet the minimum grade established or the minimum standard of composition in accordance with section 77;
(b) respecting packages or containers or the inspection, marking, shipment, advertisement, purchase and sale of farm products.
No person shall represent a farm product to be of a certain grade, variety or class unless such farm product has been so graded or classed in accordance with section 77.
No person shall misrepresent the grade, variety, class or origin of any farm product.
No person shall sell, offer for sale or have in his or her possession for sale any farm product in a package or container of which the faced or shown surface falsely represents the contents, or which package or container is not properly filled.
No person shall name a substitute dairy product using dairy product terminology as defined under section 77.
No person shall sell, offer for sale or have in his or her possession for sale any substitute dairy product that uses dairy product terminology as defined under section 77.
No person shall label, package, advertise or make claims about a product in a manner that may reasonably be expected to create an impression that the product is a dairy product unless the product is a dairy product.
Subject to the approval of the Commission, producers and other sectors of industry may establish one or more commodity development councils.
The business and affairs of a commodity development council shall be administered by a board of directors.
The membership of the board of directors of a commodity development council and the manner and term of appointment of its members shall be determined by the producers and other sectors of industry at the time the council is established.
The establishment and administration of a commodity development council shall be self-funded.
A commodity development council may make recommendations to the Minister and the Commission in relation to any matter administered by the council.
2023, c.17, s.168
An order, decision, direction or determination made by the Commission, an agency or a board under this Act or the regulations or any plan, or made under a power under any Canadian Act, may be enforced and a violation or failure to comply with an order, determination, direction or decision may be restrained, without proof of damage and whether or not a penalty is imposed for such violation or failure to comply, by an action or proceeding in The Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick.
An action or proceeding under subsection (1) may be brought or taken by and in the name of the Commission, an agency or a board, as the case may be, and the Province and the Attorney General are not necessary parties to the action or the proceeding.
2007, c.69, s.6
Subject to subsection (2), a person who violates or fails to comply with any provision of the regulations commits an offence that is punishable under Part II of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act as a category B offence.
A person who violates or fails to comply with a provision of the regulations in respect of which a category has been prescribed under paragraph 104(g.1) commits an offence of the category prescribed by regulation.
Any person who violates or fails to comply with any order or determination made or direction issued under this Act or the regulations commits an offence punishable under Part II of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act as a category E offence.
2007, c.36, s.18
No person shall pack, advertise, sell, offer for sale, transport for sale or have in his or her possession a farm product that does not comply with this Act or the regulations except as is permitted by regulation for manufacturing or processing purposes.
Any person who violates or fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence punishable under Part II of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act as a category E offence.
Any person who violates or fails to comply with a provision of this Act that is listed in Column I of Schedule A commits an offence.
For the purposes of Part II of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act, each offence listed in Column I of Schedule A is punishable as an offence of the category listed beside it in Column II of Schedule A.
Where an offence under this Act continues for more than one day,
(a) the minimum fine that may be imposed is the minimum fine set by the Provincial Offences Procedure Act multiplied by the number of days during which the offence continues, and
(b) the maximum fine that may be imposed is the maximum fine set by the Provincial Offences Procedure Act multiplied by the number of days during which the offence continues.
In a prosecution for an offence under this Act or under the regulations, orders, determinations or directions, the act or omission in respect of which the prosecution was instituted shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be deemed to relate to the production or marketing, as the case may be, of a regulated product locally within the Province.
In a prosecution for an offence under this Act or under the regulations, orders, determinations or directions, the regulated product in respect of which the prosecution was instituted shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be deemed to have been produced or marketed in the area to which the plan for the regulated product relates.
No action or other proceeding shall be instituted against any person who at any time has acted or purported to act or who is acting or purporting to act as a member or employee of the Commission or as a member of an agency, a board, or an agency appointed under or pursuant to the Canadian Act for anything done or omitted to be done by him or her in good faith in the performance or intended performance of his or her duties.
The acts of a member or an officer of the Commission, an agency or a board are valid notwithstanding any defects that may be discovered in his or her qualifications and appointment or election.
(a) keep the originals of all orders made under this Act or the regulations by the Commission, agency, board, marketing agency or body, as the case may be, and
(b) make such orders available during reasonable hours for inspection or examination by all persons affected by the orders.
The secretary or manager of an agency, a board, a marketing agency as defined in section 36, or a body referred to in section 77, as the case may be, shall provide the Commission with a copy of all orders made under this Act or the regulations by the agency, board, marketing agency or body, as the case may be, as soon as possible after they are made.
Any other order that in the opinion of the Commission has general application shall be published in The Royal Gazette, and the decision of the Commission as to whether an order has general application is final.
An order referred to in subsection (1) comes into force on the day stated in the order, but in no case earlier than the day the order is made.
A copy of The Royal Gazette containing an order referred to in subsection (1) is prima facie evidence of the making and publication of the order and that the order was in force and effect at any material time.
A certified copy of an order referred to in subsection (1) may be adduced in evidence before any court, judge or board, and when so adduced, is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the making of the order and that the order was in force and effect at any material time, without proof of the appointment, signature or authority of the person purporting to have signed the order or the certified copy of the order.
Every person who in the opinion of the Commission is directly or indirectly engaged in or connected with the production, marketing or processing of a regulated product shall make, in such form and manner and within or for such time as the Commission determines, any report considered necessary by the Commission for the purposes of this Act or the regulations, orders or plans.
In any action or other proceeding under this Act or under the regulations, orders, determinations or directions, the act or omission in respect of which the action or other proceeding was instituted shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be deemed to relate to the production or marketing, as the case may be, of a regulated product locally within the Province.
Where an agency or board in respect of primary forest products or other farm products of the forest is proposed or established under this Act, the powers, duties, functions and authority of the New Brunswick Farm Products Commission under this Act and the regulations, orders and plans shall vest in the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission.
2007, c.36, s.19; 2007, c.69, s.7
Repealed: 2007, c.36, s.19
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may authorize a Canadian Board or a Provincial Board to perform any function or duty or exercise any power relating to the production or marketing or both of a regulated product that a board may be authorized to perform or exercise under this Act, and in respect of which the Canadian Board or Provincial Board may exercise its powers under a Canadian Act or Provincial Act, and may authorize or direct a board to delegate that function, duty or power to the Canadian Board or Provincial Board.
The Commission and a board, with the approval of the Commission, may make agreements for the coordinated marketing of a regulated product with one or more of the Government of Canada, the government of a province, a Canadian Board or a Provincial Board.
An agreement under subsection (3) may provide for the pooling of revenue and may authorize a board to exercise on behalf of the Government of Canada or any of its agencies any power relating to interprovincial or export marketing of a regulated product that a board may exercise in relation to intraprovincial marketing of the regulated product.
A board authorized to conduct a pool under this Act pursuant to an agreement under subsection (3) may conduct the pool in cooperation with a party to the agreement, and money received under such an agreement shall be added to the pool and money paid out under such an agreement shall be deducted from the pool.
The Commission may make or authorize to be made with the Government of Canada or the government of a province an agreement respecting the exchange and sharing of information relating to land used for the marketing or the production and marketing of a farm product, for the promotion of the consumption and use of a farm product or for research activities pertaining to a farm product or to land used for the disposal of a farm product.
The Commission may, by order, provide for the holding of a plebiscite of producers or any group of producers for the making of a plan or amendments to a plan or concerning any matter respecting the promotion, production or marketing of a farm product or research relating to a farm product.
The Minister is responsible for the administration of this Act and may designate persons to act on the Minister’s behalf.
The New Brunswick Farms Products Commission or, subject to section 18 of the Forest Products Act, the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission may make orders 2007, c.36, s.20; 2012, c.45, s.1
(a) respecting the establishment of a negotiating agency or negotiating agencies consisting of a person or persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of a regulated product or any other person or persons, and directing that agency or those agencies to negotiate for the purpose of attempting to settle by agreement the following matters relating to the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product:
(i) minimum prices for the regulated product or for any class, variety, grade or size of the regulated product,
(ii) quantity, delivery schedules and dates for delivery of the regulated product,
(iii) any charges, costs or expenses relating to the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product, and
(iv) terms, conditions and forms of agreement relating to the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product;
(b) respecting the appointment of a conciliator that may be empowered
(i) to endeavour to effect agreement on any matter referred to in paragraph (a) that a negotiating agency has failed to settle by agreement, and
(ii) to recommend adoption of any agreement effected under subparagraph (i) to the negotiating agency;
(c) respecting the arbitration by an arbitrator or arbitration board of any matter not settled by agreement under paragraph (a);
(e) respecting the appointment of negotiating agencies, conciliators, arbitrators and arbitration boards;
(f) respecting the practice and procedure for negotiation, conciliation and arbitration;
(g) requiring that no charges, costs or expenses relating to the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product shall be made other than the charges, costs or expenses in an agreement made by a negotiating agency or award made by an arbitrator or arbitration board.
Every agreement made by a negotiating agency established in the orders under paragraph 102(a) and every award made by an arbitrator or arbitration board established in the orders under paragraph 102(c) or (d) shall be filed with the Commission immediately after it is made, and the Commission may, notwithstanding any defect in the establishment of the negotiating agency, by order declare the agreement or award to come into force on the day it is filed or on such later day as is named in the agreement or award, and the agreement or award shall remain in force for one year or for the period stated in the agreement or award.
The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying out the purpose and intent of this Act, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, regulations 2007, c.69, s.8
(a) designating articles of food or drink wholly or partially derived from a natural product as a farm product for the purposes of this Act;
(a.1) prescribing information for the purposes of paragraph 11(1)(c);
(b) respecting the powers and duties of inspectors;
(c) respecting the seizure and detention of the whole or any part of any farm product, or any class, variety, grade or size of farm product, by an inspector where the inspector believes on reasonable grounds that an offence under this Act or the regulations has been committed in respect of the farm product;
(d) respecting the release from detention of the whole or any part of any farm product, or any class, variety, grade or size of farm product, where the Minister is satisfied that the owner of the farm product that has been seized and detained is complying with this Act and the regulations, orders and plans respecting the farm product;
(e) respecting the disposal of the whole or any part of any farm product or any class, variety, grade or size of any farm product that has been seized and detained, and respecting the administration and disposition of any money derived from such disposal;
(f) respecting the duties, powers, functions and authority of the Commission;
(g) respecting fees for the purposes of this Act and the regulations and for services provided by the Minister or the Commission;
(i) defining words and expressions used but not defined in this Act.