Regulations by Commission
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(1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Commission may make regulations establishing, amending and revoking voluntary plans for farm income stabilization respecting farm products and governing the terms and conditions of stabilization under any plan and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations, (a) designating a farm product to which a plan applies; (b) ascertaining and prescribing from time to time the farm product receipts effective for a farm product to which a plan applies; (c) prescribing from time to time the stabilization factor to be included in the farm product receipts effective for a farm product which shall be, (i) in the case of a farm product named in subsection 2(1) of the Agricultural Stabilization Act (Canada), the money paid or payable per unit of farm product under that Act, (ii) in the case of a farm product designated as an agricultural commodity under the Agricultural Stabilization Act (Canada), where the percentage prescribed under paragraph 10(1)(b) of that Act is less than ninety, the money that would have been paid or payable per unit of farm product under that Act if the percentage prescribed had been ninety, (iii) in the case of a farm product designated as an agricultural commodity under the Agricultural Stabilization Act (Canada), where the percentage prescribed under paragraph 10(1)(b) of that Act is ninety or greater, the money paid or payable per unit of farm product under that Act, or (iv) in the case of a farm product other than those referred to in subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii), an amount that, in the opinion of the Commission, represents the amount of money that would have been payable per unit of farm product if the farm product had been designated as an agricultural commodity under the Agricultural Stabilization Act (Canada) and the percentage prescribed under paragraph 10(1)(b) of that Act were ninety; (d) ascertaining and prescribing from time to time a base price respecting the farm product to which a plan applies representing the average price thereof at representative markets as determined by the Commission for the five years immediately preceding the year prescribed in the plan; (e) establishing from time to time a stabilization price or prices respecting a farm product to which a plan applies obtained by adjusting 95 per cent of the base price thereof by an index calculated in such manner as the Commission may prescribe in the regulations to reflect the estimated cash-cost of production of the farm product in the year for which the stabilization price or prices are established as compared with the average cash-cost of production for the five years immediately preceding that year; (f) fixing from time to time the fees to be paid by any person enrolled in a plan, and prescribing the times and method of payment; (g) prescribing the maximum level of production or marketing for which a person enrolled in a plan is eligible to receive payments under the plan; (h) prescribing the minimum level of production or marketing by a person to be eligible to enrol or continue to be enrolled in a plan; (i) prescribing, in respect of a farm product to which a plan applies, the proportion of gross income derived from farming that a person is required to have to be eligible to enrol or continue to be enrolled in the plan; (j) prescribing terms and conditions to be complied with by applicants for enrolment in a plan; (k) prescribing the length of the term of enrolment and conditions of enrolment to be complied with by persons enrolled in a plan; (l) requiring applicants for enrolment in a plan or any person enrolled in a plan to furnish such information, statements or reports as the Commission from time to time requires; (m) prescribing the time or times at which applications for enrolment in a plan may be made; (n) prescribing the terms and conditions under which a person enrolled in a plan may withdraw from participation in the plan; (o) providing for the adjustment of fees payable by any person enrolled in a plan or the adjustment of payments thereto, where the amount of farm product for which fees were paid varies from the amount otherwise eligible for payment or where the person receives money respecting the farm product that are not taken into account in calculating the farm product receipts prescribed for the farm product; (p) prescribing the time or times at which payments shall be made under subsection (4); (q) prescribing forms and providing for their use and requiring any information given in a form to be verified by statutory declaration. Eligibility for enrolment (2) No person who is not ordinarily a resident of Ontario is eligible to enrol in a plan. Level at which fees to be fixed (3) The Commission shall fix fees to be paid by a person enrolled in a plan at a level that, in its opinion, will return one-third of the amount necessary to maintain the Fund in respect of the farm product for which fees are fixed over the length of the term of enrolment prescribed in the plan. Payment to persons enrolled in plan (4) Where, under a plan, the stabilization price exceeds the farm product receipts, the Commission, subject to the regulations, shall, at the time or times prescribed in the regulations, pay to those persons enrolled in the plan the difference between the stabilization price and the farm product receipts respecting any farm product under the plan marketed by such persons. Stabilization price deemed to be equal to cost of production figure (5) Where, under a plan, in any year, the stabilization price exceeds a cost of production figure that is ascertained and prescribed by the Commission, and which may be prescribed in the regulations, the stabilization price, for the purposes of subsection (4), shall be deemed to be equal to that cost of production figure. R.S.O. 1990, c.F.5, s.6.