Canada Grain Act — G-10 2
Definitions 2 In this Act, actual producer means a person actually engaged in the production of grain; ( producteur-exploitant ) cash purchase ticket means a document in prescribed form issued in respect of grain delivered to a primary elevator, process elevator or grain dealer as evidence of the purchase of the grain by the operator of the elevator or the grain dealer and entitling the holder of the document to payment, by the operator or grain dealer, of the purchase price stated in the document; ( bon de paiement ) class , in respect of grain, means any variety or varieties of grain designated by order of the Commission as a class for the purposes of this Act; ( classe ) Commission means the Canadian Grain Commission established by section 3; ( Commission ) commissioner means a commissioner appointed pursuant to section 3; ( commissaire ) contaminated [Repealed, 2020, c. 1, s. 60] crop year means, subject to any order of the Governor in Council made pursuant to section 115, the period commencing on August 1 in any year and terminating on July 31 in the year next following; ( campagne agricole ) Division means the Eastern Division or the Western Division; ( région ) dockage means any material intermixed with a parcel of grain, other than kernels of grain of a standard of quality fixed by or under this Act for a grade of that grain, that must and can be separated from the parcel of grain before that grade can be assigned to the grain; ( impuretés ) Eastern Division means that part of Canada not included in the Western Division; ( région de l’Est ) eastern grain means grain, other than imported grain, that is delivered into the Eastern Division; ( grain de l’Est ) elevator means (a) any premises in the Western Division (i) into which grain may be received or out of which grain may be discharged directly from or to railway cars or ships, (ii) constructed for the purpose of handling and storing grain received directly from producers, otherwise than as a part of the farming operation of a particular producer, and into which grain may be received, at which grain may be weighed, elevated and stored and out of which grain may be discharged, or (iii) constructed for the purpose of handling and storing grain as part of the operation of a flour mill, feed mill, seed cleaning plant, malt house, distillery, grain oil extraction plant or other grain processing plant, and into which grain may be received, at which grain may be weighed, elevated and stored and out of which grain may be discharged for processing or otherwise, (b) any premises in the Eastern Division, situated along Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario or the canals or other navigable waters connecting those Lakes or the St. Lawrence River or any tidal waters, and into which grain may be received directly from railway cars or ships and out of which grain may be discharged directly to ships, (c) the portion of any premises in the Eastern Division designated by regulation pursuant to subsection 116(3) that is used for the purpose of storing grain, (d) and (e) [Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3] including any such premises owned or operated by Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province or any agent thereof; ( installation ou silo ) elevator receipt means a document in prescribed form issued in respect of grain delivered to an elevator acknowledging receipt of the grain and, subject to any conditions contained therein or in this Act, entitling the holder of the document (a) to the delivery of grain of the same kind, grade and quantity as the grain referred to in the document, or (b) in the case of a document issued for specially binned grain, to delivery of the identical grain; ( récépissé ) export standard sample means, in respect of a grade of grain, a sample of grain of that grade designated by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 26(b); ( échantillon-type d’exportation ) foreign grain [Repealed, 2020, c. 1, s. 60] foreign mat