Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Proclamation — 4
4 (1) No order or regulation shall be made where the effect thereof would be to increase the aggregate of (a) the number of dozens of eggs produced in a province and authorized by quotas assigned by the Agency and by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade, and (b) the number of dozens of eggs produced in a province and anticipated to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade other than as authorized by quotas assigned by the Agency and by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board to a number that exceeds, on a yearly basis, the number of dozens of eggs set out in section 3 of this Plan for the province unless the Agency has taken into account (c) the principle of comparative advantage of production; (d) any variation in the size of the market for eggs; (e) any failures by egg producers in any province or provinces to market the number of dozens of eggs authorized to be marketed; (f) the feasibility of increased production in each province to be marketed; and (g) comparative transportation costs to market areas from alternative sources of production. (2) No order or regulation shall be made where the effect thereof would be to decrease the aggregate of (a) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the Province of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland and authorized by quotas assigned by the Agency and by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade; and (b) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the Province of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland and anticipated to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade other than as authorized by quotas assigned by the Agency and by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board. (3) No order or regulation shall be made where the effect thereof would be to decrease the aggregate of (a) the number of dozens of eggs produced in a province and authorized by quotas assigned by the Agency and by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade, and (b) the number of dozens of eggs produced in a province and anticipated to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade other than as authorized by quotas assigned by the Agency and by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board, to a number that, on a yearly basis, is less than the number of dozens of eggs set out in section 3 of this Plan for the province unless at the same time the number of dozens of eggs produced in each of the provinces, other than the Provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, and so authorized to be marketed in intraprovincial, interprovincial and export trade is decreased proportionately. (4) Subsection 4(3) does not apply to the Northwest Territories. (5) Pursuant to section 23 of the Act, the Agency has determined that the number of dozens of eggs produced in the Northwest Territories and authorized to be marketed in interprovincial and export trade in a twelve month period, when taken together with the number of dozens of eggs produced in the Northwest Territories and authorized to be marketed in intraprovincial trade in the same twelve month period, pursuant to quotas assigned by the appropriate Board or Commodity Board, and the number of dozens of eggs produced in the Northwest Territories and authorized to be marketed under quota exemptions in the same twelve month period, will equal 2,725,500 dozens of eggs, except for the period commencing on the day this subsection comes into force and terminating on December 31, 1999, when the number of dozens of eggs produced in the Northwest Territories and authorized to be marketed, either by quotas or by quota exemptions, shall be the product of the number of days in this period multiplied by 7,467. (6) No order or regulation shall be made where its effect would be to increase th