Energy Supplies Emergency Act — E-9 2
Definitions 2 (1) In this Act, Board means the Energy Supplies Allocation Board established by section 3; ( Office ) controlled product means any product or thing the supplies of which are allocated under a mandatory allocation program established pursuant to Part I; ( produit contrôlé ) mandatory allocation program means a program established pursuant to Part I to control the allocation of supplies of a product at the level of the suppliers and wholesale customers thereof; ( programme de répartition obligatoire ) petroleum or petroleum product means crude oil or other hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons recovered in liquid or solid state from a natural reservoir, any hydrocarbon or mixture thereof, in liquid or solid state, that results from the processing or refining of crude oil or other hydrocarbon, and natural gasoline or condensate resulting from the production, processing or refining of natural gas or a derivative of natural gas; ( pétrole ou produit pétrolier ) rationing program means a mandatory allocation program that is extended and converted pursuant to section 29 in respect of any controlled product; ( programme de rationnement ) sitting day , in respect of a House of Parliament, means a day on which that House is sitting; ( jour de séance ) supplier means an importer, refiner, wholesale marketer, jobber, distributor, terminal operator, broker or any other person or association of persons who supplies any controlled product in bulk at any or all levels of wholesale distribution whether or not the supplier is himself a wholesale customer for the controlled product; ( fournisseur ) wholesale customer means any person who purchases any controlled product in bulk at the wholesale level and includes Her Majesty in right of Canada or any province, any agent thereof and any refiner, distributor, jobber, dealer, public utility or operator of aircraft, railway, ships, trucks or other transportation facilities. ( acheteur en gros ) Definition of “regulation under this Act” (2) In this Act, the expression regulation under this Act includes an order made by the Board pursuant to any regulations made under Part I or II by the Board, and a regulation under this Act and any order or direction of the Governor in Council or the Board under this Act shall be deemed to be a statutory instrument under the Statutory Instruments Act . Large volume users (3) The Governor in Council may, by order, (a) designate any person as being a large volume user of a controlled product, or (b) prescribe any class of persons the members of which, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, are large volume users of a controlled product, and a person so designated or of such class of persons who purchases the controlled product, in bulk or otherwise, at the retail level shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a wholesale customer for the controlled product. Extended meaning of “supplier” and “wholesale customer” (4) For the purposes of this Act, any person or association of persons who supplies any controlled product, in bulk or otherwise, at any level of wholesale or retail distribution for use in the heating of any premises or in the operation of a farm shall be deemed to be a supplier of the controlled product and any person who purchases any controlled product at any level of wholesale or retail distribution for such a use shall be deemed to be a wholesale customer for the controlled product. R.S., 1985, c. E-9, s. 2; R.S., 1985, c. 22 (4th Supp.), s. 64; 1990, c. 2, s. 1