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Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
Whereas subsection 39(1) of the Farm Products Agencies Act provides that the Governor in Council may, by proclamation, establish a promotion and research agency with powers relating to one or more farm products, if the Governor in Council is satisfied that the majority of the aggregate of the producers or, if the import trade in one or more farm products is to be included, the majority of the aggregate of the producers and importers, of all of those farm products, in Canada or in the region to which the proclamation relates, is in favour of the establishment of such an agency;
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
And whereas the Governor in Council is satisfied that a majority of the aggregate of the producers and importers of industrial hemp products in Canada is in favour of the establishment of a promotion and research agency;
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — (a)
Now Know You that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada and pursuant to Order in Council P.C. 2024-1147 of October 25, 2024, do by this Our Proclamation (a) establish a promotion and research agency, known as the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency, consisting of nine members appointed in the manner and for the term as set out in the annexed schedule; (b) specify that the manner of designation of the chair and vice-chair of the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency, the manner of appointment and term of temporary substitute members of the Agency and the place within Canada where its head office is to be situated are as set out in the annexed schedule; (c) designate that the farm products in relation to which the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency may exercise its powers are industrial hemp products as defined in the annexed schedule; and (d) specify that the terms of the promotion and research plan that the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency is empowered to implement are as set out in the annexed schedule;
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — (a)
(a) establish a promotion and research agency, known as the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency, consisting of nine members appointed in the manner and for the term as set out in the annexed schedule;
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — (b)
(b) specify that the manner of designation of the chair and vice-chair of the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency, the manner of appointment and term of temporary substitute members of the Agency and the place within Canada where its head office is to be situated are as set out in the annexed schedule;
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — (c)
(c) designate that the farm products in relation to which the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency may exercise its powers are industrial hemp products as defined in the annexed schedule; and
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — (d)
(d) specify that the terms of the promotion and research plan that the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency is empowered to implement are as set out in the annexed schedule;
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
And Know You further that this Proclamation may be cited as the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation .
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
Of all which Our loving subjects and all others whom these presents may concern are required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused this Our Proclamation to be published and the Great Seal of Canada to be affixed to it.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
WITNESS: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Mary May Simon, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Mary May Simon, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
AT OUR GOVERNMENT HOUSE, in Our City of Ottawa, this seventh day of November in the year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty-four and in the third year of Our Reign.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
BY COMMAND, Philip Jennings Deputy Registrar General of Canada
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 1
1 The following definitions apply in this schedule. Act means the Farm Products Agencies Act . ( Loi ) Agency means the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency established by this Proclamation. ( Office ) derivative means anything set out in items 5 and 6 of Schedule 2 to the Cannabis Act . ( dérivé ) industrial hemp has the same meaning as in subsection 1(2) of the Industrial Hemp Regulations . ( chanvre industriel ) industrial hemp product means industrial hemp and anything set out in items 1 to 4 of Schedule 2 to the Cannabis Act . ( produit de chanvre industriel ) marketing in relation to an industrial hemp product or a derivative, means selling and offering for sale and buying, pricing, assembling, packing, processing, transporting, storing and any other act necessary to prepare the product or derivative in a form or to make it available at a place and time for purchase for consumption or use. ( commercialisation ) plan means the promotion and research plan the terms of which are set out in Part 2. ( plan )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
Act means the Farm Products Agencies Act . ( Loi )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
Agency means the Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency established by this Proclamation. ( Office )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
derivative means anything set out in items 5 and 6 of Schedule 2 to the Cannabis Act . ( dérivé )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
industrial hemp has the same meaning as in subsection 1(2) of the Industrial Hemp Regulations . ( chanvre industriel )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
industrial hemp product means industrial hemp and anything set out in items 1 to 4 of Schedule 2 to the Cannabis Act . ( produit de chanvre industriel )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
marketing in relation to an industrial hemp product or a derivative, means selling and offering for sale and buying, pricing, assembling, packing, processing, transporting, storing and any other act necessary to prepare the product or derivative in a form or to make it available at a place and time for purchase for consumption or use. ( commercialisation )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation
plan means the promotion and research plan the terms of which are set out in Part 2. ( plan )
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 2
2 (1) The nine members of the Agency are to be elected at the Agency’s annual general meeting in the following manner: (a) for each of the following provinces, one member is to be elected by the industrial hemp producers of that province from among the persons who have notified the Agency of their candidacy, hold a licence that, under the Industrial Hemp Regulations , authorizes the cultivation of industrial hemp and have cultivated industrial hemp in that province in the calendar year of the election or the previous two calendar years: (i) Ontario, (ii) Quebec, (iii) Manitoba, (iv) British Columbia, (v) Saskatchewan, and (vi) Alberta; (b) one member, to represent industrial hemp producers in the Atlantic provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, is to be elected by the industrial hemp producers of those provinces from among the persons who have notified the Agency of their candidacy, hold a licence that, under the Industrial Hemp Regulations , authorizes the cultivation of industrial hemp and have cultivated industrial hemp in any of those provinces in the calendar year of the election or the previous two calendar years; (c) one member, to represent industrial hemp importers, is to be elected by the industrial hemp importers from among the persons who have notified the Agency of their candidacy and have imported industrial hemp products or derivatives in the calendar year of the election or the previous two calendar years; and (d) one member is to be elected by the members elected under paragraphs (a) to (c) from among the persons who have notified the Agency of their candidacy and are involved in the supply chain for industrial hemp. (2) Despite subsection (1), if there is no candidate for an election under any of paragraphs (1)(a) to (d), the Agency may appoint the member.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 3
3 A member holds office for a two-year term beginning on the last day of the annual general meeting at which the member is elected or appointed.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 4
4 If a member is unable to act for the remainder of their term or ceases to hold office, the Agency must appoint a temporary substitute member to hold that office until the next annual general meeting.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 5
5 (1) The members of the Agency are, at their first meeting and subsequently at their first meeting after each annual general meeting, to elect from among themselves a chair and a vice-chair. (2) If the chair or the vice chair is unable to act for the remainder of their term or ceases to hold office, the members of the Agency must elect from among themselves a new chair or vice-chair, as the case may be, to hold that office for the balance of the term.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 6
6 The head office of the Agency is to be situated in the city of Calgary in the Province of Alberta.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 7
7 The Agency is authorized to (a) promote the marketing and production of industrial hemp products and derivatives for the purposes of interprovincial, export and import trade; and (b) conduct and promote research activities related to those products and derivatives.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 8
8 The Agency must annually submit to the Council a budget that sets out the costs of the proposed business and activities of the Agency for a 12-month period, a business program that sets out a detailed description of that business and those activities and all relevant information to enable the Council to determine if (a) the proposed business and activities of the Agency are consistent with section 7 and with the object of the Agency as described in section 41 of the Act; and (b) any existing or proposed orders referred to in subsection 9(1) are necessary for the implementation or the administration of the plan.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 9
9 (1) For the purpose of the implementation or administration of the plan, the Agency may, by order, impose levies or charges on persons engaged in (a) the marketing of industrial hemp products in interprovincial or export trade; and (b) the importation of industrial hemp products or derivatives. (2) An order may group persons into classes, specify the levies or charges, if any, that are payable by the persons in each of those classes and provide for the manner of collection of the levies or charges. (3) The Agency must retain in a separate account the moneys received from the levies or charges that are imposed on persons engaged in the importation of industrial hemp products or derivatives. (4) Levies or charges that are imposed by an order of the Agency that are unpaid 30 days after the day on which they were due constitute a debt payable to the Agency. (5) The Agency may appoint a person to collect on the Agency’s behalf the levies or charges that are imposed by any order. (6) Levies or charges that are imposed must be fixed at levels that will ensure returns to the Agency that are sufficient to defray its estimated administrative and business program costs each year.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 10
10 The Agency must take all reasonable steps to promote a high degree of cooperation among its members, and producers and importers of industrial hemp products and derivatives.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 11
11 (1) The Agency must hold a meeting within five years after the day on which this Proclamation comes into force, and every five years after that, for the purpose of reviewing the terms and effectiveness of the plan and determining whether any modifications are required to facilitate the carrying out of the Agency’s object as described in section 41 of the Act. (2) Within three months after the day on which a meeting referred to in subsection (1) takes place, the Agency must file with the Council a written report of its review and any recommendations for modifications.
Canadian Industrial Hemp Promotion-Research Agency Proclamation — 12
12 Nothing in this Part affects the vesting in the Agency of the powers set out in section 42 of the Act.
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations
Whereas the Governor in Council is of the opinion that gross and systematic human rights violations have been committed in the Republic of Guatemala;
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations
And whereas the Governor in Council is of the opinion that a national of the Republic of Guatemala who is a foreign public official, or an associate of such an official, is responsible for or complicit in ordering, controlling or otherwise directing acts of significant corruption;
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — a
Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, makes the annexed Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations under paragraph 4(1)(a) a and subsections 4(1.1) b , (2) c and (3) of the Special Economic Measures Act d . a S.C. 2022, c. 10, s. 438(1) b S.C. 2017, c. 21, s. 17(2) c S.C. 2023, c. 26, ss. 254(2) to (4) d S.C. 1992, c. 17
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — 1
Definitions 1 The following definitions apply in these Regulations. Guatemala means the Republic of Guatemala and includes (a) any of its political subdivisions; (b) its government, any of its departments and any government and department of its political subdivisions; and (c) any of its agencies and any agency of its political subdivisions. ( Guatemala ) Minister means the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ( ministre )
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — (a)
Guatemala means the Republic of Guatemala and includes (a) any of its political subdivisions; (b) its government, any of its departments and any government and department of its political subdivisions; and (c) any of its agencies and any agency of its political subdivisions. ( Guatemala )
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations
Minister means the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ( ministre )
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — 2
Listed person 2 A person whose name is listed in the schedule is a person who is in Guatemala, or is or was a national of Guatemala who does not ordinarily reside in Canada, and in respect of whom the Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe is (a) a person who has participated in gross and systematic human rights violations in Guatemala; (b) a current or former senior official of the Government of Guatemala; (c) an associate of a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b); (d) a family member of a person referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c) and (g); (e) an entity owned — or held or controlled, directly or indirectly — by a person referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (d); (f) an entity owned — or held or controlled, directly or indirectly — by Guatemala; or (g) a senior official of an entity referred to in paragraph (e) or (f).
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — 3
Prohibited dealings and activities 3 It is prohibited for any person in Canada and any Canadian outside Canada to (a) deal in any property, wherever situated, that is owned — or that is held or controlled, directly or indirectly — by a listed person; (b) enter into or facilitate any transaction related to a dealing referred to in paragraph (a); (c) provide any financial or related services in respect of a dealing referred to in paragraph (a); (d) make available any goods, wherever situated, to a listed person or to a person acting on behalf of a listed person; (e) transfer or provide any property other than goods to a listed person; or (f) provide any financial or related services to or for the benefit of a listed person.
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — 4
Non-application 4 Section 3 does not apply in respect of (a) any payment made by or on behalf of a listed person that is due under a contract that the listed person entered into before they became a listed person, provided that the payment is not made to a listed person or to a person acting on behalf of a listed person; (b) any transaction necessary for a Canadian to transfer to a person other than a listed person any accounts, funds or investments of a Canadian held by a listed person on the day on which that person became a listed person; (c) any dealings with a listed person required with respect to loan repayments made to any person in Canada, or any Canadian outside Canada, for loans entered into with any person other than a listed person, and for enforcement and realization of security in respect of those loans or payments by guarantors guaranteeing those loans; (d) any dealings with a listed person required with respect to loan repayments made to any person in Canada, or any Canadian outside Canada, for loans entered into with that listed person before they became a listed person, and for enforcement and realization of security in respect of those loans or payments by guarantors guaranteeing those loans; (e) any benefit paid under the Old Age Security Act , the Canada Pension Plan or the Act respecting the Québec Pension Plan , CQLR, c. R-9, any superannuation, pension or benefit paid under or in respect of any retirement savings plan or under any retirement plan, any amount paid under or in respect of the Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act or the Pension Benefits Division Act and any other payment made in respect of disability to any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada; (f) financial services necessary for a listed person to obtain legal services in Canada regarding the application to them of these Regulations or any order made under the Special Economic Measures Act ; (g) any transaction in respect of any account at a financial institution held by a diplomatic mission, if the transaction is necessary in order for the mission to fulfill its diplomatic functions as set out in Article 3 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations or, if the diplomatic mission has been temporarily or permanently recalled, when the transaction is necessary in order to maintain the mission premises; (h) any transaction with any international organization with diplomatic status, with any United Nations agency, with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement or with any entity that has entered into a grant or contribution agreement with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development; and (i) a transaction by the Government of Canada that is provided for in any agreement or arrangement between Canada and Guatemala.
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — 5
Assisting in prohibited activity 5 It is prohibited for any person in Canada and any Canadian outside Canada to knowingly do anything that causes, facilitates or assists in, or is intended to cause, facilitate or assist in, any activity prohibited by section 3 .
Special Economic Measures (Guatemala) Regulations — 6
Duty to determine 6 The following entities must determine on a continuing basis whether they are in possession or control of property that is owned — or that is held or controlled, directly or indirectly — by a listed person: (a) banks regulated by the Bank Act and, in respect of their business in Canada, authorized foreign banks as defined in section 2 of that Act; (b) cooperative credit societies, savings and credit unions and caisses populaires regulated by a provincial Act and associations regulated by the Cooperative Credit Associations Act ; (c) foreign companies , as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Insurance Companies Act , in respect of their insurance business in Canada; (d) companies , provincial companies and societies , as those terms are defined in subsection 2(1) of the Insurance Companies Act ; (e) fraternal benefit societies regulated by a provincial Act in respect of their insurance activities and insurance companies and other entities regulated by a provincial Act that are engaged in the business of insuring risks; (f) companies regulated by the Trust and Loan Companies Act ; (g) trust companies regulated by a provincial Act; (h) loan companies regulated by a provincial Act; (i) entities that engage in any business described in paragraph 5(h) of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act if the business involves the opening of an account for a client; and (j) entities authorized under provincial legislation to engage in the business of dealing in securities or to provide portfolio management or investment counselling services.