Agricultural Producers' Organization Funding (Agency) Regulation
AI-assisted research summary: This regulation sets the certified organization’s maximum annual membership fee, identifies designated purchasers, sets a 1% withholding value, and requires refunds to be made within 60 days in specified cases.
Agricultural Producers' Organization Funding (Agency) Regulation, M.R. 179/2000 The Agricultural Producers' Organization Funding Act , C.C.S.M. c. A18 NOTE: This regulation was enacted in English only. Regulation 179/2000 Registered December 21, 2000 Table of Contents Section 1 Definition 2 Maximum annual membership fee 3 Designated purchaser 4 Percentage value 5 Repealed 6 Refunds of overpayments 7 Refund on request 8 Minimum amounts excepted 9 Repealed Schedule Definition 1 In this regulation, "Act" means The Agricultural Producers' Organization Funding Act . M.R. 80/2024 Maximum annual membership fee 2 For an individual, corporation or partnership, the maximum annual membership fee of the certified organization is $275.63, plus GST. M.R. 181/2001 ; 77/2008 ; 57/2011 ; 134/2019 ; 116/2021 ; 144/2023 Designated purchaser 3(1) Those persons listed in the Schedule to this regulation are designated purchasers. 3(2) A body corporate affiliated with a person designated under subsection (1) is also a designated purchaser. 3(3) A person who acquires title to or possession of an agricultural product as a principal or as an agent on behalf of a person designated under subsection (1) or (2) is also a designated purchaser. Percentage value 4 The percentage value of an agricultural product that must be withheld under section 27 of the Act is 1% of the gross selling price payable by a designated purchaser for an agricultural product. M.R. 113/2007 ; 176/2018 5 [Repealed] M.R. 80/2024 Refunds of overpayments 6 When the certified organization is required by subsection 28(2) of the Act to refund amounts withheld under section 27 of the Act, it must do so not later than 60 days after receiving the excess amount. M.R. 80/2024 Refund on request 7 When a person requests a refund under section 29 of the Act, the certified organization must refund the person not later than 60 days after receiving an amount from the designated purchaser that is subject to the request. M.R. 80/2024 Minimum amounts excepted 8 The certified organization is not required to refund any amount under section 6 which is less than $50 prior to 90 days of the end of its fiscal year. M.R. 80/2024 9 [Repealed] M.R. 206/2002 ; 244/2004 ; 248/2006 ; 180/2008 ; 177/2010 ; 166/2012 ; 273/2014 ; 142/2016 ; 176/2018 ; 144/2023 December 20, 2000 Agricultural Producers' Organization Certification Agency: Harold Bjarnason, Chairperson Gordon H. MacKenzie, Secretary SCHEDULE (Subsection 3(1)) DESIGNATED PURCHASERS 2712270 Manitoba Ltd. operating as Pizzey Ingredients ADM Agri-Industries Company Adroit Overseas Enterprises (CA) Ltd. Agri-Tel Grain Limited Alliance Pulse Processors Inc. (AGT Foods St. Joseph plant) All Commodities (AC) Trading Ltd. Alltech Canada Inc. Avena Foods Limited Belle Pulses Ltd. Besco Grain Ltd. BP & Sons Grain and Storage Inc. Brar Natural Flour Milling Inc. Brett-Young Seeds Limited/Semences Brett-Young Limitée Buffalo Creek Mills (2017) Inc. Bunge Canada Holdings I Inc. Canada Malting Co. Limited Cargill Limited Cenovus Energy Inc. Ceres Global Ag Corp. CHS Canada, ULC Columbia Grain International, LLC. Dairy Farmers of Manitoba Delmar Commodities Ltd. Emerson Milling Inc. ETG Commodities Manitoba Inc. Federated Co-operatives Limited FeedMax Limited Partnership G3 Canada Limited Grain Millers Canada Corp. Hensall District Co-operative, Incorporated Horizon Agro Inc. HyLife Ltd. Kalshea Commodities Inc. Kola Feed Mill Ltd. Linear Grain Inc. M. & C. Commodities Inc. Malteurop Canada Ltd. Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers Limited Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Masterfeeds LP McCain Foods Ltd. Merit Functional Foods Corporation Natural Proteins Inc. Northstar Seed Ltd./Semence De L'Etoile Du Nord Ltee. Nutri-Pea LP Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited Paterson Grain Paterson GlobalFoods Inc. Prairie Flax Products Inc. Prairie Flour Mills Ltd. Providence Grain Group Inc. R-Way Ag Ltd. Richardson International Limited Roquette Canada Ltd. S.S. Johnson Seeds Ltd. Scoular Canada Ltd. Seed-Ex Inc. Shafer Commodities Inc. Simplot Canada (II) Ltd. Springfield Mills Inc. Sollio Agriculture Livestock Production – Western Canada Holding Ltd. Steinbach Feeds Ltd. Sunrise Foods International Inc. SureSource Commodities, LLC Trouw Nutrition Canada Inc. Turtle Mountain Seed Co. Ltd. Vandaele Seeds Ltd. Vanderveen Commodity Service Ltd. Viterra Canada Inc. M.R. 181/2001 ; 244/2004 ; 248/2006 ; 180/2008 ; 177/2010 ; 166/2012 ; 273/2014 ; 64/2015 ; 176/2018 ; 134/2019 ; 132/2021 ; 182/2022 ; 144/2023 ; 80/2024